From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 11:43: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92E0337B401 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:43:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2131143F93 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:43:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1JJgxqR079154; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:43:02 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1JJgxam079153; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:42:59 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:42:58 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Wayne Lubin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where can i find a startup log Message-ID: <20030219194258.GA79120@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20030219182456.GA66250@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <20030219193405.48195.qmail@web41304.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030219193405.48195.qmail@web41304.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "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