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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 08:34:22 -0700
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Subject: Generic way to restart servers?
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Hi again. I want to write a script that will restart named. Right now I have:

kill -9 `cat /var/run/named.pid`
/usr/local/sbin/named -c /etc/named.conf

Other BSDs have the rc.d concept, but it is often kind of kludgy, 
particularly when some servers come from the ports collection. Does 
FreeBSD have a generic way to shutdown and restart servers such as 
named and sendmail and apache?