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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
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Subject: Re: messages on screen 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:34:07 +0200."
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On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:34:07 +0200, Micke Josefsson wrote:

> kill -HUP 1164
> 
> Kills process number 1164 (PID=Process ID). Use top or 'ps -ax' to list
> processes.

Actually, most deamons leave a "pid file" in /var/run to assist you with
this.  In the case of syslogd, you can usually do this:

	kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`

Note that it's syslod.pid and _not_ syslogd.pid.  FreeBSD also has a
killall(1) utility which kills (possibly multiple) processes by name.
You could do this:

	killall -HUP syslogd

However, killall(1) does not exist on all platforms and this "lazy" way
of doing things can cause some serious problems if you happen to catch
forking daemons at the wrong moment.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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