Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:03:06 -0800 From: nuk <nuk@panix.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: starting, stopping, and reloading services Message-ID: <3DE2F27A.9060705@panix.com>
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Well, I'll admit most of my limited experience has been SysV style Linux distros. There, I'm used to being able to call a script in some subdirectory of /etc/initd w/ an option such as start, stop, restart, or reload to manipulate services running on that box. A couple of the distros provided shortcuts to even that along the lines of 'rcnfserver stop' (SuSE) or 'service nfs stop' (RedHat). Which leave me wondering: exactly how do I start/stop services from the command line in FreeBSD? Am I supposed to send the pid of the process a kill or HUP signal (someone want to refresh my memory as to the syntax of *that*?), and start it w/ a bunch of options/flags to get it back up and running? Or is there an easier way of doing these operations? TIA, nuk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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