problem killing a process with its pid

[Richard Yang]

Another question,

why my $SHELL return csh, but only bash scripts work?
i am really really confused...

thanks
rich


2008/9/14 Richard Yang <kusanagiyang at gmail.com>

> please see below
>
> 2008/9/14 Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net>
>
>> 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?
>>
> it is working. i am setting up natd rules, so i want to make sure updated
> rules apply :)
>
>
>>  > 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)
>
> for some reason, i need
> kill -9 $(cat /var/run/natd.pid|cut -d" " -f1)
> in a script and run the script to work...
>
> what is the equivalent, if i want to invoke it in command line under csh?
> thanks a lot
>
>
>
>
>>
>> --
>> Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net>
>>
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>
>
> --
>
> Best Regards
>
> Richard Yang
> richardyang at richardyang.net
> kusanagiyang at gmail.com
>



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