From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 7 6:37:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-34-52.knology.net [24.214.34.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F72B37B40F for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 06:37:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g57DbJKJ040419; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 08:37:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g57DbIPa040418; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 08:37:18 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 08:37:18 -0500 From: David Kelly To: Patrick Calkins Cc: "'Larry Rosenman'" , "Stable (stable@freebsd.org)" Subject: Re: OT: Passing kill a pid-file Message-ID: <20020607083718.A40379@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <9B9CB6555E6BA049BC2B857E7711C24F3F4853@puke.reno.oemsupport.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <9B9CB6555E6BA049BC2B857E7711C24F3F4853@puke.reno.oemsupport.com>; from pcalkins@oemsupport.com on Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 08:05:52PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message