I need to send a kill -1 to a process

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Anonymous asks:

I need to send a kill -1 to a process but I can not get the pid from a file as it's location is different on some systems

On Linux systems, that's very simple. You said your executable is "dnsmasq", so you can simply do:

killall -s 1 dnsmasq
 

If this isn't a Linux system or if you need the capture the PID for other reasons, do something like:

THEPID=`ps -ef|grep  dnsmasq    |grep -v grep`
 

and reference $THEPID wherever you need to.

See also Murder and Mayhem - How to kill user's processes and Understanding Kill.

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