Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 06:04:43 +0700 (NOVST) From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010250559120.5993-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <20001024132401.T17729@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:23:40PM +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > Why can't I simply write kill -1 `cat /var/run/sendmail.pid`? > > What about deamons that don't understand `kill -HUP'? Sendmail didn't > until very reciently. ``/etc/rc.d/some-deamon restart'' does the right > thing reguardless how involved that might be. Though I see your point, actually, many UNIX books, including some pretty old ones, refer to sending HUP signal as standard way of restarting/resetting daemons. ./danfe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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