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Date:      Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:48:24 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@telerama.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Shell Question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0102152040050.562-100000@bigdaddy.localdomain>

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/usr/local/etc/rc.d to fire up at boot time.

How do I get the pid of the job I'm placing in the bg?

The script is:   mystuff {start|stop}
In mystuff I bg a job by:   my_script &

How do I get the PID of my_script so that I can use
it to kill the job when I:  mystuff stop

I'm looking for something like:  PID=my_script &

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Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com,   www.cwaiken.com
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 & FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE



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