From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 3: 9:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from geronimo.qbcon.com (geronimo.qbcon.com [196.37.71.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1F737B408 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 03:09:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by geronimo.qbcon.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA14297; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 11:45:38 +0200 Received: from qbcon.com (squid.qbcon.com [196.37.71.20]) by geronimo.qbcon.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14224; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 11:45:31 +0200 Message-ID: <3BBC340A.28BFD8B0@qbcon.com> Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 12:03:54 +0200 From: Andreas Pauley X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14-15mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: af, nl, en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Restarting Daemons in FreeBSD References: <3BBC254E.41993B93@qbcon.com> <86k7ybdbzg.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.7 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wayne Pascoe wrote: > > Andreas Pauley 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message