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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: fred@timogen.com
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Subject: Re: pidof command in freebsd
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:03:49PM -0700, fred@timogen.com wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Thanks very much!
> I had install it.
> But there is a new problem, when the command
>=20
> # /usr/local/bin/pidof named
>=20
> there are some outputs:
> /proc is empty (not mounted ?)

mount_procfs(8)

> I notice that the *.pid files are in
>=20
>     /var/run/

That's only used by some system daemons that need to keep track of
their pid.  pidof will obviously have problems finding a unique pid if
you have more than one instance of the program running.

Kris

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