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Hello Gowtham,

Monday, May 16, 2005, 6:41:03 PM, you wrote:

> Hi,
> I want to know how can I programmatically restart a dead daemon process in
> Unix?

You can restart daemon process with:

kill -HUP `cat /path/to/processname.pid`

or you can do that in your own C program this kill syscall, read
before:

man 2 kill


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 Sergey  S. Ropchan                         mailto:fenix@ramb.com.ua