Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 13:39:24 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: trini0 <trini0@optonline.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Killing process Message-ID: <XFMail.010104133924.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3A54EC23.40A23A03@optonline.net>
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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
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