RE: Writing a start / stop script (getting pid)

Pascal: You can use the -p option of ftpd to write it's PID to a file. Something like ftpd -D -p /var/run/fptd.pid should probably work. - Barry -- Barry Byrne, IT Manager, WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: Writing a start / stop script (getting pid)

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 11:40:33AM +0200, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: Lo ppl, how to i get the pid of a process i start in a shellscript? The Variables $$ / $PID are not really of use. What i would like to have, is some sort of command with has the return value of another startet

RE: Writing a start / stop script (getting pid)

I'm sorry, i searched for PID in the manpage... Thanks! Pascal: You can use the -p option of ftpd to write it's PID to a file. Something like ftpd -D -p /var/run/fptd.pid should probably work. - Barry -- Barry Byrne, IT Manager, WBT Systems, Block 2,