Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:03:27 -0700 From: "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6 Message-ID: <20001025160327.E622@beastie.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010250559120.5993-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>; from Alexey Dokuchaev on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 06:04:43AM %2B0700 References: <20001024132401.T17729@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010250559120.5993-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 06:04:43AM +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > 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. Using the `kill -HUP` method, how do you deal with the dependency issues that people have been mentioning in this thread? -brian -- Brian O'Shea boshea@ricochet.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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