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From: Ari Suutari <ari.suutari@ps.carel.fi>
To: "'Wayne Baety'" <mrfoine@enteract.com>
Cc: "'Brian Somers'" <brian@awfulhak.org>,
        Mark Tinguely
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Subject: RE: /var/run/natd.pid request 
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 12:38:10 +0300
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Hi,

On 12. kesakuuta 1997 11:41, Wayne Baety [SMTP:mrfoine@enteract.com] wrote:
> 
> 
> Well this is what i did a while back and needed the PID of natd....I think
> it requires procfs for the grepping of /proc thou.... I Just attached all
> of my cfg files for pppd..etc.  Not sure if this was the best
> solution....but it worked for me.  Also there is a script to return the
> pidof of a process by name....for the first match it prints just the PID
> but any other matches aren't parsed and status information is printed in
> the whole.....was a nice little script to get the PID of a named process
> quickly w/o using ps.....since at the time ps was crashing my -current.
> 
> 

	I browsed through your scripts:

	The reason why neither SIGHUP or -dynamic would work
	for you is that you use -alias_address option. Dynamic features work
	only if you give the name of interface (with -interface) option instead
	of using -alias_address.

		Ari S.