problem killing a process with its pid
Sahil Tandon
sahil at tandon.net
Sun Sep 14 07:47:41 UTC 2008
Richard Yang <kusanagiyang at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been trying to kill the process by pulling natd.pid
Is the rc script, which can be used to stop natd, not working?
> below are 3 typical examples among a couple dozens I tried
>
> kill -9 $(natd.pid)
> Illegal variable name
>
> kill -9 '/var/run/natd.pid'
> kill: Arguments should be jobs or process id's
>
> cat /var/run/natd.pid | kill -9
> (no error returned, but natd process is still up)
In bash, you could:
# kill -9 $(cat /var/run/natd.pid)
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Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net>
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