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Date:      Fri, 7 Jun 2002 08:37:18 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        Patrick Calkins <pcalkins@oemsupport.com>
Cc:        "'Larry Rosenman'" <ler@lerctr.org>, "Stable (stable@freebsd.org)" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: OT: Passing kill a pid-file
Message-ID:  <20020607083718.A40379@grumpy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <9B9CB6555E6BA049BC2B857E7711C24F3F4853@puke.reno.oemsupport.com>; from pcalkins@oemsupport.com on Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 08:05:52PM -0700
References:  <9B9CB6555E6BA049BC2B857E7711C24F3F4853@puke.reno.oemsupport.com>

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On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 08:05:52PM -0700, Patrick Calkins wrote:
> # 
> # 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!

Except for Sendmail where "kill `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`" is
needed because sendmail's command line options are on the 2nd line.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.

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