Re: USB script

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
1 May 1999 12:55:58 +0200


In article <cistron.19990429211200.B1253@uni-mainz.de>,
Dominik Kubla <dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de> wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 10:29:59PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>>
>> The file linux/drivers/usb/restart contains this line:
>> UPID=`ps aux | grep uhci-control | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
>>
>> That isn't such a great way to do it. I suggest this for now:
>> UPID=`ps auxc | grep '^root .* uhci-control$' | awk '{print $2}'`
>
>Even better:
>
>UPID=`ps -C uhci-control -o pid --no-headers`

Why can't uhci-control just write a /var/run/uhci-control.pid like
most other daemons. Then you can simply kill `cat /var/run/uhci-control.pid`.
Or even better, start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --pidfile \
/var/run/uhci-control.pid uhci-control

Mike.

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