RE: [PHP] PID needed to hammer squid

[snip] I need to restart squid from PHP, but my squi doesn't stop because a lot of stupid errors. So, i need to kill it and then start it again. [root@nau init.d]# ps aux | grep squid root 9281 0.0 0.3 6124 1792 ? S 16:04 0:00 squid -D squid 9283 0.0 1.0 8392 5060 ? S 16:04 0:00 (squid) -D squid 9284 0.0 0.0 1360 264 ? S 16:04 0:00 (unlinkd) root 9288 0.0 0.1 3860 592 pts/0 S 16:10 0:00 grep squid [root@nau init.d]# echo $$; The pid i need to kill is the one from the line: squid 9283 0.0 1.0 8392 5060 ? S 16:04 0:00 (squid) -D How can i get this pid so i can kill -9 it and then start squid again ? [/snip] Start here http://www.php.net/exec To get the PID you may be able to place the output of ps -aux in an array, regex for what you want, then exec