Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:42:58 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where can i find a startup log Message-ID: <20030219194258.GA79120@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20030219193405.48195.qmail@web41304.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030219182456.GA66250@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <20030219193405.48195.qmail@web41304.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:34:05AM -0800, Wayne Lubin wrote: [...] > With that in mind I now see the purpose of all of the > commands except the last one. For what reason does one > have to perform > > kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid` > > In other words why must one stop the syslogd daemon? > It will only start up again upon the next reboot. This doesn't stop the syslogd daemon. It's a notification signal to syslogd to re-read the /etc/syslog.conf. Check out syslogd(8) for more details. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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