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Date:      Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:03:54 +0200
From:      Andreas Pauley <andreasp@qbcon.com>
To:        wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Restarting Daemons in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <3BBC340A.28BFD8B0@qbcon.com>
References:  <3BBC254E.41993B93@qbcon.com> <86k7ybdbzg.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk>

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Wayne Pascoe wrote:
> 
> Andreas Pauley <andreasp@qbcon.com> writes:
> 
> > How do I restart syslog with the new flags in rc.conf
> 
> Best bet is to kill the process and manually restart it AFAIK
> 
> > and how do I get syslog to re-read its config if I just change
> > something small in syslog.conf?
> 
> get pid of syslogd
> ps ax | grep syslogd
> kill -HUP syslogd

Thanks, this worked nicely.
In the process I also discovered the /var/run directory, which could
prove very useful for scripts.

Andreas.


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