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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.

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