Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:42:18 +1100 From: aunty <aunty@comcen.com.au> To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: kill -HUP 1 Message-ID: <19991229214218.A47183@comcen.com.au> In-Reply-To: <001901bf51c7$338ec6c0$3d9ec5d1@webserver> References: <001901bf51c7$338ec6c0$3d9ec5d1@webserver>
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On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 10:24:50PM -0800, Duke Normandin wrote:
> I can't seem to get kill -HUP 1 to work.....nothing happens - no error
> messages, nothing.
That's perfectly correct! Unix complains if something is wrong, and
leaves you peacefully in the dark in case of success. You had succcess.
If you had been editing /etc/ttys and had also remembered to make the
devices, you'd magically have your extra virtual consoles (or whatever)
after such a reassuring (?) silence following that command.
> I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
The second most important thing is to avoid making any assumptions.
The most important thing is not to assume you've made a mistake, and
in fact that was the only thing you did wrong. Then it got worse :-)
> So I have been doing:
>
> kill 1 -l
Ugh... (what you typed exactly is more apparent from the description below)
> It logs out of csh and asks me for the complete path to my shell or
> return for sh. I press "return"...I get a sh prompt, then I do "exit".
> Then and only then is the system re-initialized. I have no idea what I'm
> doing....but it beats re-booting.
No it doesn't, it _is_ a kind of rebooting. Also it confuses the hell
out of people who try to answer your question :-)
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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