Finding PID

ohswrestler2009 · 10-26-2007, 08:08 AM

Hey, I'm trying to follow your Tutorial on setting up Samba.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...nd_running_NOW
I'm at the part where its telling me to restart the inetd by typing the command:
kill -1 inetd_PID
It says to get the PID of the process inetd from my process list,
How do I find out what the PID is?
Thanks

acid_kewpie · 10-26-2007, 08:10 AM

run "pidof inetd" or read the output of "ps aux". note that only (afaik) slack and debian use inetd still. all others would use xinted.

ohswrestler2009 · 10-26-2007, 08:13 AM

I ran the first command, "pidofinetd" and nothing happend.
But then I ran the 2nd one, "ps aux" and a long list of processes came up.
I saw "ps aux" on the list, was that it?

colucix · 10-26-2007, 08:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ohswrestler2009

I ran the first command, "pidof inetd" and nothing happend.

If you did not get any number, maybe a process called inetd does not exist. Following the note from acid_kewpie maybe you have xinetd instead. Anyway, which distribution are you running on?

Quote:

But then I ran the 2nd one, "ps aux" and a long list of processes came up. I saw "ps aux" on the list, was that it?

To extract only the information you're interested in you can pipe the output to grep, e.g.

Code:

ps aux | grep inetd

Indeed the ps command gives the status of all the (hundreds) of processes running on your system, but the output can be filtered by the grep command or - better - by other options to the ps command itself, as for

Code:

ps -C inetd

See man ps for details.

acid_kewpie · 10-26-2007, 11:24 AM

if you ran "pidofinetd" then blatantly nothign will happen as that's not a real command, unlike what i said which was "pidof inetd"