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From: Patrick Calkins <pcalkins@oemsupport.com>
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Subject: RE: OT: Passing kill a pid-file
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:05:52 -0700 
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# -----Original Message-----
# From: Larry Rosenman [mailto:ler@lerctr.org] 
# Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 7:57 PM
# To: Patrick Calkins
# Cc: Stable "(stable@freebsd.org)
# Subject: Re: OT: Passing kill a pid-file
# 
# 
# On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 21:55, Patrick Calkins wrote:
# > Slightly (ok, extremely) off topic - I know its simple, but 
# I am going 
# > nuts finding it... how do I pass 'kill' a pid that lives in 
# a file?? I 
# > am writing a .sh script to shutdown one of my daemons, and 
# the pid is 
# > in a file... I keep thinking its something like kill -9 && cat 
# > '/bla/bla/my.pid'
# 
# kill -9 `cat /bla/bla/my.pid`
# 
# note that the quotes are back ticks.
# 
# LER

Ok, so now I feel really silly - can't believe I was that close to getting
it... :o) Thanks much!

# > 
# > Patrick
# > OEMSupport.Com, Inc
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