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From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu>
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:53:44PM -0500, fbsd_user wrote:
> After making changes to syslog.conf and newsyslog.conf 
> what is the command to enable the changes.
> 
> Is it  Kill -HUP 1
Note that process with PID 1 is usually the init process - sending a HUP
signal to it will produce undesirable effects similar to restarting the
whole server.  Have a go and see what happens if it's not a production
server :P

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