On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:45:21 -0600 (Central Standard Time), Donna
Garverick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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>this brings up the next logical question (i think).  i've tried going into the
>shell and typed 'kill <pid_number>' and the shell says something impolite in
>return.  (actually, the only way i've gotten kill to work is the 'kill `cat...`'
>method that mark showed us.)  how do kill something without a pid file?  just a
>pid number?          - d

That's right, just a number (or space-separated list of numbers).
Don't type the "<" or ">", or, for that matter the single quote at the
beginning and end of the line; This will, as you noted, confuse the
shell and it will tell you so, in a more or less polite way ;-). Just
type:

kill 234 52 2234

if you want to kill the pids 234 and 52 and 2234

Danny A. van Delft   [log in to unmask]