From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 2:40:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3CB637B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 02:40:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx0.gmx.net (mx0.gmx.net [213.165.64.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8337943E75 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 02:40:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from CapM@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 631 invoked by uid 0); 24 Sep 2002 09:40:32 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:40:33 +0200 (MEST) From: Pascal Giannakakis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Writing a start / stop script (getting pid) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Authenticated-Sender: #0000945514@gmx.net X-Authenticated-IP: [195.82.64.130] Message-ID: <32468.1032860433@www23.gmx.net> X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.5 (Global Message Exchange) X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lo ppl, how to i get the pid of a process i start in a shellscript? The Variables $$ / $PID are not really of use. What i would like to have, is some sort of command with has the return value of another startet script. The background: i try to write a rc.d script for ftpd, and i need the PID to stop it again. Thx! -- Werden Sie mit uns zum "OnlineStar 2002"! Jetzt GMX wählen - und tolle Preise absahnen! http://www.onlinestar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message