On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 09:15:21PM +0200, Marc.Haber@gmx.de wrote: > writes the pid of the newly started process to. This could be accomplished > quite easily in the source while creating the pidfile in the shell script > needs quite some effort. > How about $ echo `pidof dns-tcpdump` > /var/run/dns-tcpdump.pid ??? That should do it for you if your "wish" is never granted :) Jon jmarler@istrength.net