Try
   ps -aux | grep myservice
where you replace myservice with the process name. Check 'man ps'.

Then use kill.

/Daniel

On onsdag, nov 13, 2002, at 07:43 Europe/Copenhagen, Carlo Smith wrote:

> Working on a bash script to restart a service when needed but now need 
> to kill a process that doesn't have a pid file (kill -HUP cat xxx.pid)
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> How do i go about this ?
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