Once upon a time, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com> said: > Good to know! I hadn't heard of pidof before. However this is what I get > when I run it: Try pid=$(pidof -x cassandra). Normal pidof calls look for programs with the given name, but scripts/interpreted programs show up with the interpreter first and then the program name. The -x options tells it to look for script-like things as well. -- Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>