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Re: restarting a daemon



On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:48:12PM -0400, Giulio Morgan wrote:
> I am trying to modify and "reload" my exim.conf file. The beginning of the
> sample conf file says "...you change Exim's configuration file, you *must*
> remember to HUP the Exim daemon". I am unable to determine how to HUP a daemon
> without rebooting. Any help will be appreciated, thank you so much.

easy way in this case:

  /etc/init.d/exim reload

harder way:

  kill -hup `ps awx | grep [e]xim | awk '{print $1}'`

Cheers,

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