From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 24 16: 5: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from linux.ssc.nsu.ru (linux.ssc.nsu.ru [193.124.219.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B250B37B4CF for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:05:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 14263 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2000 23:05:00 -0000 Received: from inet.ssc.nsu.ru (62.76.110.12) by hub.freebsd.org with SMTP; 24 Oct 2000 23:05:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (danfe@localhost) by inet.ssc.nsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA06004 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 06:04:43 +0700 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 06:04:43 +0700 (NOVST) From: Alexey Dokuchaev Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6 In-Reply-To: <20001024132401.T17729@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:23:40PM +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > Why can't I simply write kill -1 `cat /var/run/sendmail.pid`? > > What about deamons that don't understand `kill -HUP'? Sendmail didn't > until very reciently. ``/etc/rc.d/some-deamon restart'' does the right > thing reguardless how involved that might be. Though I see your point, actually, many UNIX books, including some pretty old ones, refer to sending HUP signal as standard way of restarting/resetting daemons. ./danfe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message