Date: 29 Dec 1999 13:14:23 +0100 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kill -HUP 1 Message-ID: <84ctuv$l7d$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <3.0.5.32.19991229111745.00a31100@relay.alice.it> <9439.946463304@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> wrote: > I'm confused for two reasons: > > 1) Duke's first attempt should have worked, > > kill -HUP 1 Presumably it did. Depending on whether and how you changed /etc/ttys, nothing obvious happens. A newbie might expect some explicit feedback. > 2) Duke's second attempt should produce some kind of invalid syntax > warning. Possibly. After sending SIGTERM to init(8), at which point it becomes moot. I recently mistyped # kill =HUP 1 The shell complained but proceeded to send SIGTERM to init. Ouch. Since "kill" tends to be a builtin, different shells may behave differently in this context. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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