I tried this and received the error
:xeq sh.hpbin.sys "-c 'kill 'head -n 1 /SENDMAIL/PUB/etc/sendmail.pid''"
**** AMBIGUOUS USE OF QUOTES WITHIN INFO STRING (CERR 13)

ABORT: SH.HPBIN.SYS
NM SYS   a.00ab34a0 dbg_abort_trace+$24
NM PROG  669.0004900c _csu_error+$e4
Program terminated in an error state. (CIERR 976)

What am I doing wrong?
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 -----Original Message-----
From:   Mark Bixby [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Thursday, January 25, 2001 5:04 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: killing sendmail

Donna Garverick wrote:
>
> hi all!
>
> yup, i'm trying to kill stuff again :-)
>
> the following is from my sendmail.pid file....
>
> :print /SENDMAIL/PUB/etc/sendmail.pid
> 65853
> /SENDMAIL/PUB/SENDMAIL -q5m -bD
>
> this file is quite different from my other 'pid' files
> because of the 2nd line....and i can't do....
>
> xeq sh.hpbin.sys "-c 'kill `cat ./smbd.pid`'"
>
> like i do with samba (in this case).  i'm reasonably sure
> there must be some posix-y way of doing this, but.....  any
> suggestions?        - d

:xeq sh.hpbin.sys "-c 'kill `head -n 1 /SENDMAIL/PUB/etc/sendmail.pid`'"
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