[ILUG] Getting the pid of a process

[Tiarnan O Corrain]

Hi all,

is there any sure-fire (and easy) way of getting the pid of a process
that's just been kicked off.

I want to start a daemon and write its pid to a file in /var/run (or
somewhere similar). Can I avoid grepping through the process table to
get this?


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Tiarnan O Corrain
Consultant / System Administrator
CMG Wireless Data Solutions Ltd.
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