On Aug 12, 1997, at 23:33, George Bonser wrote: > A quick and dirty that I sometimes use: > > killall -HUP inetd > > Which stops and restarts inetd causing it to re-read the inetd.conf file.
Just to make things clear, kill doesn't stop anything; it's purpose in life is to send a given signal to a given process. When you do a killall -HUP inetd you are sending a SIGHUP signal to all processes whose name matches "inetd". "The" inetd we all know, inetd(8), reacts to a SIGHUP by rereading its configuration file, /etc/inetd.conf. The name for the "kill" system call is a misnomer from old times. Also, if no signal is specified, kill sends a SIGTERM signal to the process(es), whose default action is to (surprise) terminate the process; that explains (in part) the name "kill". -- Gonzalo A. Diethelm G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
