From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 2:41:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sblake.comcen.com.au (sblake.comcen.com.au [203.23.236.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C1091518C for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 02:41:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aunty@sblake.comcen.com.au) Received: (from aunty@localhost) by sblake.comcen.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA47487; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:42:18 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from aunty) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:42:18 +1100 From: aunty To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: kill -HUP 1 Message-ID: <19991229214218.A47183@comcen.com.au> References: <001901bf51c7$338ec6c0$3d9ec5d1@webserver> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <001901bf51c7$338ec6c0$3d9ec5d1@webserver> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 10:24:50PM -0800, Duke Normandin wrote: > I can't seem to get kill -HUP 1 to work.....nothing happens - no error > messages, nothing. That's perfectly correct! Unix complains if something is wrong, and leaves you peacefully in the dark in case of success. You had succcess. If you had been editing /etc/ttys and had also remembered to make the devices, you'd magically have your extra virtual consoles (or whatever) after such a reassuring (?) silence following that command. > I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. The second most important thing is to avoid making any assumptions. The most important thing is not to assume you've made a mistake, and in fact that was the only thing you did wrong. Then it got worse :-) > So I have been doing: > > kill 1 -l Ugh... (what you typed exactly is more apparent from the description below) > It logs out of csh and asks me for the complete path to my shell or > return for sh. I press "return"...I get a sh prompt, then I do "exit". > Then and only then is the system re-initialized. I have no idea what I'm > doing....but it beats re-booting. No it doesn't, it _is_ a kind of rebooting. Also it confuses the hell out of people who try to answer your question :-) -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message