At 08:46 AM 8/1/99 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote [in part]:
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>Isn't it a shame that in all your well composed message you neglected to
>say how one DOES restart a process and avoid the three finger salute?
Steve left this out, at least in part, because there is no concise answer to
the question (other than the somewhat unfriendly direction to read the man
page, and even that doesn't always tell).
One way that almost always works is to kill and restart the process.
Occasionally, you can't do that. Killing init, for example, will kill the
system. For init (after you've changed /etc/inittab, for instance), you do
"init q".
Some daemons can be forced to re-read their config files with a SIGHUP
signal. You send it like this: "kill -SIGHUP pid", where pid is the process
number of the process, found from a "ps ax" (or "ps -ax" for older versions)
listing.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA 94303-3603 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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