Thanks Henning. That did the trick for me.

pkill works wonderfully.

Henning Brauer wrote:
* Matthew S Elmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-27 20:55]:
Though I have been successfully running dhcpd myself for a few years now, it has come to my attention when writing some scripts to help maintain systems that there is no /var/run/dhcpd.pid file.

Is this by design?

yes. pid files are useless.

I understand many are not fans of having lots of pid files laying around their box. What then is the recommended way of killing and restarting the daemon?

pkill(1)

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