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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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