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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:14:01 -0800
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke>
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Subject: Re: Starting daemons in rc.local
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 08:50:56AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

[snip]

> Hi Matthew,
> 
> Thank you once again for reverting to me. I'm writing to inform you that
> I also tried to adapt the example script in rc(8) man page for
> 4.2-STABLE but I realized that even though the processes started, they
> were not creating the process pid in /var/run. So really i am now into
> looking at a way of having the magic pid created....
> 
> Does anyone know how to achieve this for any process???

If the program does not actually need to have a smooth shutdown, you
can always make the stop a nop,

        'stop')
            # Do nothing
            ;;

Or we can make an attempt to pull the PID from the ps(1) output,

        'stop')
            # Extract a PID
            PID=`ps ax | awk '/INSERT PROGRAM NAME HERE/ { print $1 }'`
            # Kill the process
            kill $PID
            ;;

-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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