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From: Gene Harris <zeus@tetronsoftware.com>
To: Otter <otterr@telocity.com>
Cc: Odhiambo Washington <vedette@iconnect.co.ke>,
	Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: PORTMAP
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The answer to your questions depends on the dameon you wish to
restart.  However, generally speaking, you can use kill -HUP <pid> to
restart/reinitialize a daemon.  To use portmap as an example, try using the
command 'ps waux | grep portmap'.  You should get back a line that looks like:
daemon   420  0.0  0.2   832  412  ??  Is   12:28AM   0:00.00
/usr/sbin/portmap, which gives the pid of 420.

You can kill the portmapper with kill -9 420.  To restart portmap, issue the
command /usr/sbin/portmap.  If you want to restart/reinit, do kill -HUP
420.  This allows you to work with portmapper while the server remains up.  Of
course, if someone is using a service that depends on the mapper, then you
may crash them if you restart the service.  NFS comes to mind.

HTH,
Gene Harris

On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Otter wrote:

>  }>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>  }
>  }On 9/10/00, 2:43:14 PM, Odhiambo Washington <vedette@iconnect.co.ke>
>  }wrote regarding PORTMAP:
>  }
>  }
>  }> Hello pals,
>  }> I need to know whether I will be calling for trouble
>  }disabling portmap
>  }and
>  }> how to do it. This is on FBSD 3.4-R. Some guy seems to be so busy
>  }scanning
>  }> my network and I guess this is a way to settle the score
>  }with him;-)
>  }
>  }> -Wash
>  }
>  }
>  }
>  }Dear Odhiambo Washington,
>  }
>  }the short answer is rc.conf(5), but today is Sunday :-)
>  }
>  }/etc/rc.conf:
>  }
>  }[...]
>  }portmap_enable="NO"
>  }[...]
>  }
>  }This won't start portmap at boot time.
>  }
>  }Best regards,
>  }Salvo
>  }
>  Salvo (or anyone else),
>  The rc.conf file is an easy one. As I sit here and think about those
>  in a mission critical environment, and the changes they might need to
>  make after getting the OS installed and in production... Is there any
>  way to make changes to the rc.conf, and somehow
>  restart/reinitialize/etc those changes without rebooting? Maybe
>  sysctl? I've been looking at the man page for it and don't see
>  anything that would work there. Anyone have a clue? I don't.
>  -Otter
>  
>  
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