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WarriorZ · Voice Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 2

need some help please
my eggbot was running fine... but i wanted it renew'd so i deleted the pid file.. the bot is still running and i cant bring in the new bot till i get rid of the old... how do i turn off the running bot

Alchera · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:58 pm Post subject:

Kill the process id:

WarriorZ · Voice Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 2

i deleted the pid thinking the bot would just die ... so there is no pid
yet the bot is still running
even with the pid number which i had on a backup comp i get this msg
44170: No such process

Alchera · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:39 am Post subject:

Deleting the .pid file does nothing; it is for the system so it can track the running process.

Every time a process is (re)started it is assigned a new pid, so "backing up" the pid file is useless. To get the process id type the following at the shell prompt:

deadite66 · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:29 am Post subject:

i usually run.