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Date:      Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:54:17 -0700
From:      "D.M.P." <dmp@aracnet.com>
To:        cjclark@home.com
Cc:        gryph@mindless.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xntpd quits on SIGHUP?
Message-ID:  <37EDB509.34D3393A@aracnet.com>
References:  <199909260456.AAA80333@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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"Crist J. Clark" wrote:
> 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.

Oh, okay then.  Learn something new everyday.

Thanks.


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