Re: [Correction] Re: How can I get a script to find out what a PID is?

[Gordon Messmer <yinyang eburg com>]

"Rick L. Mantooth" wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, George Lenzer wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to be able to kill a process with cron.  Since Process IDs are
> > > always different, is there a way to kill a process by the application name?
> >
> > Don't know of a way.
> >
> > > Or, is there a way to get the process ID and pass it to cron?
> >

Sounds to me like `/usr/bin/killall <process name>` would do what you
want.
`/sbin/pidof <process name>` will get you the PID(s) if you want em,
though.

MSG