[BusyBox] location of pidof

Brian T btuch at usa.net
Mon Nov 29 19:36:12 UTC 2004


Yeah, I know.  It was just that the Redhat scripts have several references
to "/sbin/pidof" with the path.  But as it turns out I can't use busybox's
pidof since it doesn't have the -o option to omit pids from the list.  I
guess I just won't use it for now.

-Brian


>
> So according to the sysvinit package's pidof program, it's supposed to
> go in /sbin/. However logic dictates it go in /bin/ as it's useful to
> users and does not require superuser privs to work. In either case, put
> both /bin and /sbin in your PATH and it'll work regardless.
>






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