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Date:      Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:04:05 +0200
From:      Andreas Pauley <andreasp@qbcon.com>
To:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
Cc:        "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Restarting Daemons in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <3BBC3415.74B4B6D4@qbcon.com>
References:  <3BBC254E.41993B93@qbcon.com> <20011004185820.A498@k7.mavetju.org>

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Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> 

> > Is there a standard way to stop/start/restart daemons in FreeBSD?
> > (I'm used to the RedHat way of having scripts for this in a central
> > directory)
> 
> Yes, a little bit more Do It Yourself than RedHat: find the process
> and send the signals to it. -HUP is a common practise, so is storing
> the pid in /var/run/... is and looking for the process id and send
> the hup afterwards is working everywhere.

Insightful, thank you :-)

Andreas.


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