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Lee Johnston wrote:
> 
> 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???
is would work better kill -TERM `cat /var/run/named.pid` These are the
apostrophes for execution. '' are for quoting.  You can also do a ps
and use the PID (process id)
kill -TERM 356

Hope that helps.  Start a non critical process and practice:-)

Ed
> 
> Thanks
> 
> ------------
> Lee Johnston
> ljohnston@cyberworld.demon.co.uk
> http://www.cyberworld.demon.co.uk
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