December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
588 pages
25h 57m
English
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PidFile
A useful piece of information about an executing process is its PID
number. This is available under both Unix and Win32 in the
PidFile, and this directive allows you to change
its location.
PidFilefileDefaultfile: logs/httpd.pid Server config
By default, it is in ... /logs/httpd.pid. However, only Unix allows you to do anything easily with it; namely, to kill the process.