Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:37:08 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?m=20p?= <sumirati@yahoo.de> To: Patrick O'Reilly <bsd@perimeter.co.za>, John Mills <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu>, John Mills <jmmills@telocity.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: S/Key - this is embarrasing. Message-ID: <20020412083708.80596.qmail@web13305.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi,
Patrick O'Reilly wrote:
>
> 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
# Which version of sshd runs on a host
telnet hostname 22
# Which version of ssh i use to connect?
ssh -V
>
> > > > 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.
>
Have you ever looked into the rc.d scripts?
They do nothing more than to look for something like "restart,start,stop" and
then do some action.
There are there for one purpose: to help the admin NOT to shoot himself in the
foot. If you are a novice, have not worked in a long time with _that_
particular daemon, are working under [preferred kind of]-pressure they do all
the proper action (beside of a running a process, killing it or sending a
SIGHUP/SIUSR1 (depending on your application) for you which you wanted to do.
But they are shell-scripts. Therefor all they do - you can do by hand.
(i.e. "apachectl graceful" looks for a file /var/run/apache.pid, if found it
sends a SIGUSR1 to this process, if not the scripts starts the apache - and
saves the processnumber into the file /var/run/apache.pid)
Just my EUR 0.02
Marc
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