Assigning a PID to a given program?

2003-06-13 Thread Dragoncrest
Ok, not sure if this is possible, but I thought I'd ask just in case. What I'm looking to do is to assign a given Program ID number to a specific process if possible. I know FBD assigns them automatically as they're executed, but I've hit into at least one or two apps that's looking for a

Re: Assigning a PID to a given program?

2003-06-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-06-13T15:43:06Z, Dragoncrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but I've hit into at least one or two apps that's looking for a particular program running on a particular PID (don't ask me why. I've never seen that before. Could you name the apps, and say why you think they're looking for a

Re: Assigning a PID to a given program?

2003-06-13 Thread Lord Raiden
Regreatably it was long enough back that I can't remember which ones it was. One I think might have been in question was when I was rebuilding my sendmail configs. When the script tried to bounce sendmail it tried to do it by PID. At 2003-06-13T15:43:06Z, Dragoncrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: Assigning a PID to a given program?

2003-06-13 Thread Marc Wiz
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:27:00PM -0400, Lord Raiden wrote: Regreatably it was long enough back that I can't remember which ones it was. One I think might have been in question was when I was rebuilding my sendmail configs. When the script tried to bounce sendmail it tried to do it by PID.

Re: Assigning a PID to a given program?

2003-06-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
Regreatably it was long enough back that I can't remember which ones it was. One I think might have been in question was when I was rebuilding my sendmail configs. When the script tried to bounce sendmail it tried to do it by PID. It does this and several other utilities do this. But,

Re: Assigning a PID to a given program?

2003-06-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-06-13T17:59:52Z, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Regreatably it was long enough back that I can't remember which ones it was. One I think might have been in question was when I was rebuilding my sendmail configs. When the script tried to bounce sendmail it tried to do it

Re: Assigning a PID to a given program?

2003-06-13 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Dragoncrest wrote: Ok, not sure if this is possible, but I thought I'd ask just in case. What I'm looking to do is to assign a given Program ID number to a specific process if possible. I know FBD assigns them automatically as they're executed, but I've hit into

Re: Assigning a PID to a given program?

2003-06-13 Thread Dragoncrest
After doing some reading and some research, I'm seriously leaning that direction. I didn't know about PID's being written to files like that. I'll look into this a bit more. It just seemed strange to me is all. At 03:45 PM 6/13/03 -0700, Viktor Lazlo wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2003,