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Date:      Wed, 7 Aug 1996 19:08:14 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tcpwrapper logs (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199608071908.TAA03955@CoDe.CoDe.hu>

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Opps!

My previous message has lost it's main part.  Sorry!

It's a bit annoying:
>>>>> ... ``I kill -9'd, restarted, exited''
>>>> ... I don't know, but ...
>>> ... I typed ``kill -9 ..., after it restarted, but it exited
>> ... I dunno, but kill
> ... I killed with KILL signal, restarted, exited
.
.
.

I don't know tcp-wrapper, but:
a) so many daemons (init, inetd, etc) use SIGHUP to re-read their
configuration files.  So kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid` isn't kill
it, only send an alert: ``Read your files, something was changed!''
b) I think, tcpd makes it's pid file like this:
------------------------------------+
                                    v
open( PIDFILE, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL );
And because with kill -9, he/she/it hasn't any time to remove it, at next
start, exiting.  Try kill -9, remove /var/run/syslog.pid, and start it over.
If it exits, sorry.

-- 
	Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu>

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