Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:02:42 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing a start / stop script (getting pid) Message-ID: <20020924100241.GA1089@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <32468.1032860433@www23.gmx.net> References: <32468.1032860433@www23.gmx.net>
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 11:40:33AM +0200, Pascal Giannakakis wrote:
> 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.
If you are using the ftpd that comes in the base system, it can be made
to write its PID out to file - start it with the options
-D -p /path/to/pidfile
You can then kill the process by PID by saying
kill `cat /path/to/pidfile`
If you are not using the base system's ftpd, try this:
kill `ps axfr | awk '/ftpd/ {print $1}'`
Or, if you have more than one running,
for pid in `ps axfr | awk '/ftpd/ {print $1}'`; do
kill $pid
done
Just one way to do it, but one that works for me!
HTH
Dan
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