pierre  wrote:

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> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:37:41 +0100

> "Helmut Schneider"  wrote:

>

>> Claudio Jeker  wrote:

>>> We don't believe in pid files. Use pgrep(1) and pkill(1) instead,

>>> you will never have stale info that way.

>>

>> pgrep on OpenBSD does not support '-o' (Select only the oldest). It

>> is - well - it could be more useful.

>>

> man pgrep

> -n      Match only the most recently created process, if any.

>

> Is that what you're looking for ?

No. It might find a child but it will never find the parent.
[root@BSDHelmut ~]# pgrep -fl httpd

81972 /usr/local/sbin/httpd

81960 /usr/local/sbin/httpd

1115 /usr/local/sbin/httpd

1114 /usr/local/sbin/httpd

1111 /usr/local/sbin/httpd

1109 /usr/local/sbin/httpd

1108 /usr/local/sbin/httpd

979 /usr/local/sbin/httpd

[root@BSDHelmut ~]#
To stop httpd, which pid should I kill, the oldest, or the most recent?
OK, 'pgrep -fl httpd | tail -1' does the trick, and pgrep is not safe enough

for finding parents, but...
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