Re: restarting daemons

[Torsten Hilbrich <Torsten.Hilbrich@bln.de>]

"Gonzalo A. Diethelm" <gonzo@ing.puc.cl> writes:

> 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.

Another way for force inetd to reload its configuration is to use the
start script:

        /etc/init.d/netbase reload


        Torsten

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