Colin wrote: > I've noticed that several (read: all) of my initscripts which use > killall to end processes like syslogd, klogd, and httpd consistently > fail, saying "no process killed" strangely. Sure enough, if I try it at > the command line, it doesn't work. > > I can obviously use kill -9 to kill things, but then I need the pid in > order to include it in an initscript. Busybox doesn't have a command > line switch to write a pid when something is launched. > > How can I kill syslogd and other processes effectively without needing a > pidfile?
Not quite sure: By grepping the processlist for the process name and isolating the pid? Or isn't ps working without proc in busybox? _______________________________________________ Clfs-support mailing list Clfs-support@lists.cross-lfs.org http://lists.cross-lfs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clfs-support