Try this: kill `pidof firestarter` Note the backquotes (under the tilde on the keyboard). The pidof command is in /sbin so it has to be run as root unless you make other arrangements. Keith

So if you know how to kill from a terminal let me know. Can't find anything in the manuals.

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On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 22:43:19 +0000 David wrote: <snip>

Basically it runs out of the box, but needs some tinkering because of something I did not realise. Firestarter seems only to run the once, so when it is found running it needs to be shut down and loaded again. Been trying to work out how to terminate from the command line but can't. Tried kill firestarter - no go. Found the PID and killed it but of course that is different everytime.

So far as the console-kill is concerned, try <killall firestarter> - see man killall. I have also produced a revised script, firestarter_rev, which is below and by email to you. I am not, however, at all sure that it is what you need (am suffering from Monday-morning-brain-itis just now). We can always revise it further. Regards, Geoff #!/bin/bash ########################################################################### # This script begins by killing any running instance of Firestarter. It will # generate a harmless and invisible error if no instance is, in fact, running. # It then checks to see if Netscape is running, and starts it if it is not. # It then restarts Firestarter. ########################################################################### # Destroy all running instances of firestarter killall firestarter # grep the process tree for running instances of netscape # Redirect the output to a files, which will be of zero # length if no running instance is found. There is probably a nicer # way to do this, but it appears to work. ps auxc | grep netscape > netscape_running # If the netscape file is of zero length then start netscape as a background job if ! test -s netscape_running; then netscape & fi # Now re-start firestarter /usr/local/bin/firestarter & _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:34:11 +0000 David wrote:

Hi Geoff Thanks for that - it works !

:-) You are welcome. Come back to me if you eventually need to modify it when you stop doing all as root.

I know you don't think it is very elegant, but it seems to do the job.

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On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:07:29 +0000 David wrote:

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:40:18 +0000, Geoff wrote:

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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:34:11 +0000 David wrote:

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Hi Geoff Thanks for that - it works !

:-) You are welcome. Come back to me if you eventually need to modify it

when

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you stop doing all as root.

Forgot about that - doesn't work under user - firewall doesn't protect either.

Oh dear back to the drawing board.

This is fixable, though it may involve the use of sudo (man sudo and man visudo - but not unless you have an hour or so to spare). Just to confirm before planning the modification, - the script presently runs from that YAST2 command line - not within ip-up.local? If (as I think), it is not in ip-up.local, did you perchance ever experiment with putting it there? Thanks, Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 00:17:05 +0000 David wrote:

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Just to confirm before planning the modification, - the script presently runs from that YAST2 command line - not within ip-up.local? If (as I think), it is not in ip -up.local, did you perchance ever experiment with putting it there?

I just tried that. It will kill F/s but won't load it or Netscape. Don't understand that. Must be something that blocks it at that moment. If you run ip-up.local as a command then it works.

OK .. I have made some modifications to firetest_rev which I think will do the trick and should allow you to continue to run from the YAST2 line. Because the way in which the script works may have security implications for your system I am going to test it a little further here, then send it, with some instructions, by private email. Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com