RE: [cobalt-users] EMERGENCY

["Ian C. Walmsley" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff Bilicki
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 9:43 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] EMERGENCY
>
>
> > We did the same thing when we moved some sites using the CMU.
> We had to have
> > our colo do a reboot. Why does cobalt tell us to issue the command 'kill
> > head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid' if it kills the RaQ?
>
> I the command is supposed to be:
> kill `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`
>
> The back ticks are pretty important.  The -1 is an argument to
> head, not kill,
> I will see what I can do about getting the docs changed.  To read this
> command properly, the output of head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid
> (which should be
> the pid of sendmail) is sent to the kill command.
>
> Jeff-
>

To be honest Jeff - the manual needs to mention the difference between a `
and a ' - people will try to use the apostrophe rather than the other mark
(which I know of no name for), and of course this will fail - so then they
assume the ` are a typo.

Ian