From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 9 18:35:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA23514 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 18:35:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iconz.co.nz (iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA23507 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 18:35:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by iconz.co.nz (8.6.12/8.6.10) with ESMTP id NAA28088; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 13:35:21 +1200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id NAA06535; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 13:35:22 +1200 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA14931; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 13:08:09 +1200 (NZST) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA07020; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 13:08:09 +1200 (NZST) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 13:08:08 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Lee Johnston cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using kill In-Reply-To: <3415A36A.167EB0E7@cyberworld.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Lee Johnston wrote: > Hi > > When I try to kill a process using kill -TERM 'cat /var/run/named.pid' It should be: kill -TERM `cat /var/run/named.pid` ie: use backquote (`) instead of single-quote ('). -- Jonathan Chen e-mail : jonc@pinnacle.co.nz Pinnacle Software Ltd Voice : +64.9.415.4460 Auckland, New Zealand Fax : +64.9.415.4250