Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 17:41:58 -0500 From: trini0 <trini0@optonline.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Killing process Message-ID: <3A54FC36.91943EE1@optonline.net> References: <XFMail.010104133924.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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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
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