Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 20:11:09 -0500 From: trini0 <trini0@optonline.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Killing process Message-ID: <3A551F2C.A3F21E10@optonline.net> References: <XFMail.010104133924.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <3A54FC36.91943EE1@optonline.net>
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Its me again. When I tried kill -9 'cat /var/run/inetd.pid' (just an example), I get kill: Arguments should be jobs or process id's Im thinking its the shell. Im running 4.2S, so I think its the tcsh shell Im using. What should I do. Thanks trini0 wrote: > Thanks, guys. > > John Baldwin wrote: > > > On 04-Jan-01 trini0 wrote: > > > I cant find out where, but Im trying to kill a process by kill -9 > > > /var/run/*.pid, it keeps saying illegal process. I checked the archives > > > but found nothing. What is the correct syntax to define a process by > > > /var/run/*.pid. > > > Thanks > > > > kill `cat /var/run/foo.pid` > > > > kill takes the pid as its argument. /var/run/foo.pid is a file that contains > > the pid of the process. > > > > -- > > > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > > PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- _____________________________ | trini0 | | | / ) | Systems Administrator | / / | Network Engineer | ( ( | email ==> | (((\ \> |/ ) trini0@optonline.net | (\\\\ \_/ /_________________________| \ / \ _/ / / / / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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