Kill a network process

I am trying to kill a network process...

I have been told to use the following commands:
l *.pid
cat *.pid

Can anyone tell me more about these commands?
Is it common that the PID of all processes are stored in a text file?

Thanks,

On 2006-07-05, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I am trying to kill a network process...
>
> I have been told to use the following commands:
> l *.pid
> cat *.pid

Correct me if I'm missing the point but are you talking about /etc/rc.d/*/network ?

> Can anyone tell me more about these commands?

man cat
'l' is not any of standard unix commands.

> Is it common that the PID of all processes are stored in a text file?

No, but they usually can be displayed with ps command: man ps

Regards,
K.

Krzysztof Roburst wrote:
> On 2006-07-05, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Can anyone tell me more about these commands?
>
>
> man cat
> 'l' is not any of standard unix commands.

Usually l is defined as an alias l="ls -l" so it is a more detail list
>
>
>>Is it common that the PID of all processes are stored in a text file?
>
>
> No, but they usually can be displayed with ps command: man ps

So your frined forgot to tell you the last command kill to kill the
process whose PID you have found.
>
> Regards,
> K.

Angel
www.photrick.com

On 5 Jul 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in article
<(E-Mail Removed) .com>,
(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>I am trying to kill a network process...

What _kind_ of a network process? What distribution? What release?

>I have been told to use the following commands:
>l *.pid
>cat *.pid
>
>Can anyone tell me more about these commands?

Then you should be asking the person who told you to use those commands.
What it _looks_ like is that the first command _might_ be something that
gives a directory listing - possibly of '/var/run/'

[compton ~]$ ls /var/run/*.pid | column
/var/run/atd.pid /var/run/inetd.pid /var/run/sendmail.pid
/var/run/crond.pid /var/run/klogd.pid /var/run/syslogd.pid
[compton ~]$

while the second would show the contents of all of those files. That by
itself would not kill any process.

>Is it common that the PID of all processes are stored in a text file?

No. Depending on your distribution, you might have a 'pidof' command (which
is normally a link to killall5 - READ THE MAN PAGE FIRST), or your system
init scripts may have a 'pidofproc()' function.

Assuming a normally running system, you can determine the PID of a process
using 'ps auwx' and then use kill to terminate that specific process.

Old guy