Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:42:04 +0200 From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za> To: John Mills <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu>, John Mills <jmmills@telocity.com>, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: S/Key - this is embarrasing. Message-ID: <200204112334.56383@.perimeter.co.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0204111540290.2772-100000@otter.mills-atl.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0204111540290.2772-100000@otter.mills-atl.com>
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On Thu 11 Apr 02 21:52, John Mills wrote:
> Hello, Patrick -
>
>
> How do I see what
> version is installed under FreeBSD?
>
Hmmm ... I dunno - and man doesn't seem to tell me either
>
> > > Also, how do I restart 'inetd' in FreeBSD-4.5 without rebooting
> > > the
> >
> > box?
> >
> > # kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`
>
> Ahh - silly me. I've been seduced by RH ]init' scripts. That was
> actually one reason I wanted to spend some time with FreeBSD: its
> reputation as more representative of 'mainstream' Unices.
>
I may be mistaken, but I'm not aware of other Unices that use this
convention ( kill SIGHUP /var/run/${procname}.pid ). In fact there was
talk a while ago that FreeBSD might adopt the rc.d system as used by
Linux and others for a future release (5.0 perhaps?). I'm not sure
what the latest status is on this.
Anyway, there clearly is merit in both systems, and the rc.d system is
quite widely used, so which approach rightly deserves to be called
'mainstream' is probably up for debate :)
Glad to have been of help, nonetheless.
Patrick.
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