From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 25 21:53:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B10D14FA4 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 21:53:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA80333; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:56:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199909260456.AAA80333@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: xntpd quits on SIGHUP? In-Reply-To: <37ED8CB5.3BE192B8@aracnet.com> from "D.M.P." at "Sep 25, 1999 08:02:13 pm" To: gryph@mindless.com Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:56:07 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message