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Date:      Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:52:58 +0100
From:      "mcoyles" <mcoyles@horbury.wakefield.sch.uk>
To:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Kill via Cron...
Message-ID:  <002c01cae05e$7eab3ea0$7c01bbe0$@wakefield.sch.uk>

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Morning all - on FreeBSD 7.1 (for various reasons - don't ask)
Am attempting to run the following via cron but it keeps erroring out:

kill -9 `ps ax | grep backup | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'` && kill -9
`ps ax | grep dump | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`


Error: 

usage: kill [-s signal_name] pid ...
       kill -l [exit_status]
       kill -signal_name pid ...
       kill -signal_number pid ...

Works OK from commandline - what do I need to change to make this cronable??


Cheers
Marci




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