Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 14:31:09 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to I tell nfsd that /etc/exports has changed? Message-ID: <199912271331.OAA21082@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> At 26/12/99, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> >
> >kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/mountd.pid)
>
> killall -HUP mountd
>
> should work too...
But it's less reliable, and it can be even quite dangerous.
For example when there happen to be other processes called
"mountd"...
In general, I'd advise against using killall. The PID files
(in /var/run/pid) _do_ have a reason to exist.
Regards
Oliver
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