* On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 02:53:08PM BST, Dave English <davide@???> wrote:
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> Michael Collin Nielsen <michael@???> writes
> >I don't get a /var/spool/exim/exim-daemon.pid file :-/
>
> Me neither.
>
> Without one, I am unsure how to write the script to stop it. ( Excuse
> any ignorance here, I am a newbie ).
It appears to me that, if you didn't specify the location of the pid
file in the Makefile when you compiled, then it will be called
exim-daemon.pid and be in the Exim spool directory (wherever that is
in your installation).
It should be a plain text file with a number, indicating Exim's
process ID, followed by a line feed.
To find it, you could try:
locate exim-daemon.pid
or look in the Makefile to see if its location was explicitly defined.
A script to kill Exim could simply contain:
kill `cat /path/to/pid-file`
or
kill $(cat /path/to/pid-file)
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