On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 12:08:30AM -0800, Greywolf wrote:
> One thing I could see doing was to echo the command to be run to
> /var/run/${command}.cmd, thus resulting in a (.pid, .cmd) pair. If one
> wished to restart, one would kill the pid and then run the command found in
> the .cmd file.  A 'stop' would kill the pid and delete the .cmd file.
> A 'start' would, through some magic, arrive at the right command
> and args and run it.

What about programs that have multiple processes which need to be
killed?

Case in point: Infoseek's Ultraseek server.
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