From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 14:38:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.perimeter.co.za (dns.perimeter.co.za [196.25.164.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FCE437B404 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 14:38:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (ndf-dial-196-30-223-43.mweb.co.za [196.30.223.43]) by dns.perimeter.co.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g3BLcAL38261; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:38:10 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Patrick O'Reilly" Organization: Perimeter Networks CC Message-Id: <200204112334.56383@.perimeter.co.za> To: John Mills , John Mills , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: S/Key - this is embarrasing. Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:42:04 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message