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Re: restarting daemons



On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote:

> Just to make things clear, kill doesn't stop anything; it's purpose in
> life is to send a given signal to a given process. When you do a
> 
>   killall -HUP inetd
> 
> you are sending a SIGHUP signal to all processes whose name matches
> "inetd". "The" inetd we all know, inetd(8), reacts to a SIGHUP by
> rereading its configuration file, /etc/inetd.conf.

Hmmm, how come the PID changes?


George Bonser

Tommy Lasorda for baseball commissioner!


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