I have always used a killall -HUP radiusd in my scripts...works great. 
And yes I know all about the missing/incorrect PID file.

Joe

Frank Cusack wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:17:47AM -0800, Frank Cusack wrote:
>
>>On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:37:41PM -0300, Eduardo Roldan wrote:
>>
>>>Why the included init script(/redhat/rc.radiusd-redhat) takes the
>>>arguments restart and reload as the same?
>>>
>>>I think that the restart command should do a STOP, START. And the reload
>>>should send a HUP signal to the radiusd daemon to reload the
>>>configuration files. I have changed my script to reflect this. There are
>>>any drawbacks to make this the default behavior in the distributed
>>>script?
>>>
>>Yeah, that should be the default behaviour.  I'll commit a fix.
>>
>
>I lied. :-)  radiusd does not write a pidfile (even though it does parse
>this arg from the config file).  I am not sure how it will respond to
>HUP on systems like Linux where each thread is seen as a process by most
>utilities (like ps).  So... I'll leave it for someone else to look at.
>
>/fc
>
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