What is a .pid file and what does it contain?

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The pid files contains the process id (a number) of a given program. For example, Apache HTTPD may write its main process number to a pid file – which is a regular text file, nothing more than that – and later use the information there contained to stop itself. You can also use that information to kill the process yourself, using cat filename.pid | xargs kill

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