To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
References: <200306131759.h5DHxqNK027196@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:35:05 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200306131759.h5DHxqNK027196@clunix.cl.msu.edu> (Jerry
 McAllister's message of "Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:59:52 -0400 (EDT)")
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Subject: Re: Assigning a PID to a given program?
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At 2003-06-13T17:59:52Z, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> writes:


>> Regreatably it was long enough back that I can't remember which ones it
>> was.  One I think might have been in question was when I was rebuilding
>> my sendmail configs.  When the script tried to bounce sendmail it tried
>> to do it by PID.

> It does this and several other utilities do this.  But, the way they do it
> is to write their pid in to a file when they start up and then if the
> script needs to HUP or kill them, it gets the PID out of the file.

So can we safely say that the original request was not quite exactly
accurate?
-- 
Kirk Strauser


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