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Date:      Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:54:55 +0100
From:      "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>
To:        "Pascal Giannakakis" <CapM@gmx.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Writing a start / stop script (getting pid)
Message-ID:  <NCBBIAMNAKDKFJIIGNPKEEGJJKAA.barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <32468.1032860433@www23.gmx.net>

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Pascal:

You can use the -p option of ftpd to write it's PID to a file.

Something like

ftpd -D -p /var/run/fptd.pid

should probably work.

 - Barry

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Barry Byrne, IT Manager,
WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre
Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Pascal
> Giannakakis
> Sent: 24 September 2002 10:41
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Writing a start / stop script (getting pid)
>
>
> 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!
>
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