Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 17:41:35 -0500 From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com> To: Chris Zwilling <chris@cloudnet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System V style init files. Message-ID: <19990708174135.F10138@winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907081642560.23233-100000@arus.cloudnet.com>; from Chris Zwilling on Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 04:45:41PM -0500 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907081642560.23233-100000@arus.cloudnet.com>
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Chris Zwilling <chris@cloudnet.com> wrote: > > Hello! > > I am coming from a RedHat world where all services (inetd, sendmail, > httpd, etc etc etc) are started and stopped with individual init scripts. > Yesterday I was doing some sendmail hacking and I found it quite tedious > to killall sendmail and then sendmail -bp.... Is there anything like the > System V init file structure that RedHat has or should I write my own. > The five second version of the question is: Is there any easy way to > restart individual services? You will have to write your own or kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sendmail.pid`. Also if you are really motivated you could take the work found at http://www.freebsd.org/~eivind/newrc.tar.gz and play with/enhance it. ;-) This work is aimed at what you are interested in. Good Luck, Nathan -- Nathan Ahlstrom FreeBSD: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ nrahlstr@winternet.com PGP Key ID: 0x67BC9D19 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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