From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 9 15:39:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA11946 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 15:39:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from punt-2.mail.demon.net (punt-2d.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA11941 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 15:39:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cyberworld.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.109]) by punt-2.mail.demon.net id aa1505363; 9 Sep 97 20:29 BST Message-ID: <3415A36A.167EB0E7@cyberworld.demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 20:28:42 +0100 From: Lee Johnston X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Using kill Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi When I try to kill a process using kill -TERM 'cat /var/run/named.pid' or similar it won't let. I keep getting the error message: No such pid cat /var/run/named.pid Is there a way to kill a process with out opening the pid file??? Thanks ------------ Lee Johnston ljohnston@cyberworld.demon.co.uk http://www.cyberworld.demon.co.uk ---------------------------------