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Re: Restarting daemons



on Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 10:30:20AM -0800, Doug Hunting (locque@comcast.net) wrote:
> I was hoping there would be a simple command to restart a daemon. Namely 
> lprng. I know about killall 

killall isn't the recommended way to kill a specific daemon.  Instead,
you want:

    /etc/init.d/<daemon> stop

> but what signal do you pass it to have it restart??

Dead daemons can't be signalled.  You have to start them directly:

    /etc/init.d/<daemon> start


Peace.

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