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Date:      Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:56:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        gryph@mindless.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xntpd quits on SIGHUP?
Message-ID:  <199909260456.AAA80333@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <37ED8CB5.3BE192B8@aracnet.com> from "D.M.P." at "Sep 25, 1999 08:02:13 pm"

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D.M.P. wrote,
> When I do a 'kill -HUP' on xntpd, the process terminates, instead of
> "rebooting" itself. Is this on purpose, a bug, or am I mistaken about
> the function of SIGHUP?

The "function of a SIGHUP" is defined by the program. You can't assume
that a SIGHUP always makes a process re-read its config files.

If you want to reconfig a running xntpd process, use the xntpdc(8)
command.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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