From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 1 12:07:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09602 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 12:07:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09462 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 12:06:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA09499; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:06:06 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:06:06 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: robert cc: freebsd list Subject: Re: re read the host file and ttys In-Reply-To: <36B21EF5.E1533107@mhi-tx.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, robert wrote: > hello, > I am wondering how I can make my machine re read the > /etc/hosts,hosts.equiv,hosts.lpd, and /etc/ttys files without restarting > the whole thing. > I have tried kill -1 1(killing init) but that isn't it?? > any clues would be greatly appreciated. /etc/hosts and hosts.equiv are reread automatically. /etc/ttys require a kill -HUP 1 dunno about hosts.lpd (although I suspect lpd rereads that automatically as well). Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message