Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 14:23:17 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kill -HUP 1 Message-ID: <19991229142317.A49613@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <001901bf51c7$338ec6c0$3d9ec5d1@webserver> References: <001901bf51c7$338ec6c0$3d9ec5d1@webserver>
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Duke Normandin wrote:
> I can't seem to get kill -HUP 1 to work.....nothing happens - no error
> messages, nothing.
What do you expect to happen? All SIGHUP does to init is cause it to reload
/etc/ttys. If you haven't changed /etc/ttys, the behaviour your are seeing
(i.e. nothing) is quite correct.
> I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. So I have
> been doing:
>
> kill 1 -l
>
> 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.
That command tries to send SIGTERM to init, which is documented as
dropping the system down to single user mode - precisely what you are
seeing. It would also attempt to send SIGTERM to the process "-l", which
is not a legal PID (whether it will try this or not I don't know - init
may have killed the kill process before it gets that far).
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