From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 14 15:58:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA28832 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 15:58:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA28805 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 15:58:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chain.iafrica.com (root@chain.iafrica.com [196.7.74.174]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id OAA10942 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 14:11:19 -0700 Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain.iafrica.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA07916; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 23:10:46 +0200 (SAT) X-Authentication-Warning: chain.iafrica.com: khetan owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 23:10:46 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar To: Jim Dennis cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swapper In-Reply-To: <201006142108.OAA17629@mistery.mcafee.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 14 Jun 110, Jim Dennis wrote: > Please tell me more about this syntax. There's nothing to it, really. kill -1 hups a process, and swapper runs as process 0. Therefore kill -1 0 as root will hup the swapper and restart it (effectively). It'll kill your current session, but hey.... > Where could I read more about this? I couldn't find anything about it. One of the ugu (unix gurus) I know does it. Regards, Khetan Gajjar. --- Visit me at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ UUNet-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002