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To: Lee Johnston <ljohnston@cyberworld.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Using kill
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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
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