From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 27 5:31:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BD014C14 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 05:31:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21082 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 14:31:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 14:31:09 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912271331.OAA21082@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to I tell nfsd that /etc/exports has changed? Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message