From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 7 21:40: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1n.bluewin.ch (mta1n.bluewin.ch [195.186.1.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 322FB37B41A for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 21:39:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saturn.spectraweb.ch (62.202.116.133) by mta1n.bluewin.ch (Bluewin AG 6.0.040) id 3CAAC7690023713F; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 06:39:51 +0200 Received: (from martin@localhost) by saturn.spectraweb.ch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g384dOQ00902; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 06:39:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pcservi@spectraweb.ch) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 06:39:19 +0200 From: Martin Schweizer To: Ceri , Martin Schweizer , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SOLVED: rc.shutdown Message-ID: <20020408063919.A890@spectraweb.ch> Reply-To: Martin Schweizer References: <20020403230833.A293@spectraweb.ch> <20020404092807.GA4598@submonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020404092807.GA4598@submonkey.net>; from setantae@submonkey.net on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:28:07AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Ceri and others Sorry about the delay but I was very busy. I did missinterpreted the rc man page (because english is not my mother language!). Now it works great! Thank you for your hints. On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:28:07AM +0100 Ceri wrote: > > I want to shutdown my dhcpd with /bin/kill 'cat /var/run/dhcpd.pid'. I set > > this in rc.shutdown but nothing occurs. In man pages and READMEs I didn't > > found anything (only an example man rc). What do I wrong? > > On top of what others have pointed out, you should be using backticks there > (namely `, note the difference between ` and '). -- Regards Martin Schweizer PC-Service M. Schweizer; Gewerbehaus Schwarz; CH-8608 Bubikon Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www.pc-service.ch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message