Looks like whatever it was that tried to invoke the kill command didn't use a shell to parse it first.
-- Jim -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gilles Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 4:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: "kill -HUP `pidof inetd`" fails Hello An application uses the following command to restart inetd: ============= root:/var/tmp> kill -HUP `pidof inetd` kill: bad pid '`pidof' kill: bad pid 'inetd`' ============= pidof is actually compiled in Busybox: ============= root:/var/tmp> which pidof /sbin/pidof root:/var/tmp> ls -al /sbin/pidof lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jul 4 2011 /sbin/pidof -> busybox ============= Inet is running OK: ============= root:/var/tmp> ps aux| grep inetd 55 root 484 S /sbin/inetd -f 196 root 692 S grep inetd root:/var/tmp> pidof inetd 55 ============= I don't understand the cause for the error. Anybody has an idea? Thank you. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
