At Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:05:52 -0500 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have ran into things like this with services before.  This is how I
> do.  I stop the service, /etc/init.d/<name> stop.  Then I make sure it
> is not still running somewhere.  ps aux | grep <name>  If nothing comes
> up but the grep command then it is not running.  If something does come
> up then you need to kill it.  I usually do killall <name>.  If all is
> well, then zap it and restart the service.  It should be a clean start.
>
> Hope that helps.

Indeed it does.  My error was in not remembering (or checking) the
meaning of zap.  I misremembered it as similar to killall.

Thank you and Stefan for setting me straight.

allan
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