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Date:      Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:22:20 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        fbsd_user <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: -HUP 1 command
Message-ID:  <20040114022220.GA86475@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGAEEHFEAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com>
References:  <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGAEEHFEAA.fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com>

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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

No. You don't need to HUP anything for newsyslog.conf, it's a cron-job.
For changes to syslog.conf you need to HUP the syslogd process, ie:

    # kill -HUP <pid-of-syslogd>

-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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