Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 06:59:33 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Andreas Pauley <andreasp@qbcon.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restarting Daemons in FreeBSD Message-ID: <15292.20261.480669.377198@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <93324075@toto.iv>
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Andreas Pauley <andreasp@qbcon.com> types:
> I've just made changes to my syslog.conf and the syslog startup
> parameters in rc.conf
Since nobody mentioned two things that make life a *lot* easier, I
think I'll do so.
> How do I restart syslog with the new flags in rc.conf, and how do I get
> syslog to re-read its config if I just change something small in
> syslog.conf?
Changing the flags in rc.conf means you have to kill it and restart it
by hand with the the flags copied in by hand. Or, if you're paranoid,
by doing something like:
# sh # start a shell we're going to toss later
# killall syslogd # killall kills by process name
# . /etc/rc.conf # Get the value for syslogd_flags
# /usr/sbin/syslogd ${syslogd_flags} # Start syslogdf
# exit # as promised, throw away the shell.
> Is there a standard way to stop/start/restart daemons in FreeBSD?
If the daemons were installed from ports, there's probably a script in
/usr/local/etc/rc.d that starts and stops them. Invoke it with the
option "stop" and then "start". Some of them may accept a "restart"
argument as well; just read them and see.
Many of the standard system daemons - which aren't started that way -
will take a HUP signal to mean "reread configuration information." You
can do that for syslogd like so:
# killall -HUP syslogd
For these, you have to read the man page.
Hopefully, 5.0 (or maybe something before that) will include the
NetBSD rc system, which combines the advantages of both the SysV
system that most Linux distros use with those of the BSD rc.conf
system.
<mike
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