Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 22:10:35 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minor nits about bindist... Message-ID: <199506110510.WAA08032@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950611105428.258H-100000@aries> from "Brian Tao" at Jun 11, 95 11:09:04 am
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> > On Sat, 10 Jun 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > It will exit if there are no valid lines in /etc/exports for it to > > export. [Gee, why would it wont to keep running when it has no > > work to do :-)] > > I dunno, tell that to nfsd. ;-) I would like to edit > /etc/exports and then do a "kill -1 `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`" on it > instead of having to figure out whether it is really there (e.g. from > a script). I can't rely on /var/run/mountd.pid as it is now because > it may contain stale information. Just a matter of consistency. Then > again, I wish UNIX had some way of letting you do send message vectors > to running processes by name rather than this business of looking up > their pid and firing a signal off to it... Perhaps it is time to add a few more RPC calls to them there daemons so you could fire an RPC at them to do most of the things that kill -SIGHUP does now. I have always hated using HUP to cause reloads of data files, I find it gross compared to the nice neat stuff that VMS does :-). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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