From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 25 16: 1: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB52237B4C5 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:01:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beastie.localdomain ([24.19.158.41]) by femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001025230052.DULL3598.femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com@beastie.localdomain>; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:00:52 -0700 Received: (from brian@localhost) by beastie.localdomain (8.9.3/8.8.7) id QAA52952; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:03:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:03:27 -0700 From: "Brian O'Shea" To: Alexey Dokuchaev Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6 Message-ID: <20001025160327.E622@beastie.localdomain> Reply-To: boshea@ricochet.net Mail-Followup-To: Alexey Dokuchaev , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001024132401.T17729@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Alexey Dokuchaev on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 06:04:43AM +0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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