Assign Specific PID

[freeyourboxers]

OK, so I have this piece of software (a "component" actually) that I want to restart every 25 or so minutes. My plan is to assign a specific PID to that process (if this is even possible) and then write a script that restarts that PID every 25 or so minutes. So I need to know how to assign a specific PID to that component. If anyone has any other ideas as to how to accomplish my goal, I'd be glad to hear them.

Thank you so much

 

[BSDimwit]

have the same pid everytime? you could make the script lookup the pid for it everytime it restarts its.... for example

#!/bin/sh
kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid`

this will lookup the pid of that process(if it writes in the that location) like FreeBSD does and cause it to restart.

If it doesn't write a pid file by default, perhaps you can force it to by invoking it with a -p argument

like so

/usr/local/bin/mydaemon -p /var/run/mydaemon.pid

anyway, just some thoughts from a BSD hacker.

 

[theDarwinian]