Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 19:39:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Alan Nordwick <nordwick@graft.xcf.berkeley.edu> To: Lee Johnston <ljohnston@cyberworld.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using kill Message-ID: <199709100239.TAA05008@graft.xcf.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: ljohnston@cyberworld.demon.co.uk on 9/9/1997 to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <3415A36A.167EB0E7@cyberworld.demon.co.uk> References: <3415A36A.167EB0E7@cyberworld.demon.co.uk>
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Lee Johnston, on Tue 9/9/1997, wrote the following: > > 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 > --------------------------------- make sure the cat command is in backticks. Jay -- Join the FreeBSD Revolution! mailto:nordwick@xcf.berkeley.edu http://xcf.berkeley.edu/~nordwick
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