On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:45:27PM -0800, bob ackerman wrote: > yes. i uncommented the daytime tcp line, did a 'kill -HUP 239' and the > script worked. > i didn't find 'killall' on my system. and 'kill -HUP inetd' didn't work. i
killall is a linux abomination, the other option on non linux ssystems is sudo kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid` not backticks, not single quotes. HTH Michael > had to use the pid of inetd. > Thanks. i learning am. > > On Thursday, March 14, 2002, at 01:46 PM, Tim Rayner wrote: > > >Incidentally, to get a service such as 'daytime' to run, you can edit the > >/etc/inetd.conf file to remove the leading remark # characters from the > >lines referring to the service of interest. There are two lines in the > >case of daytime; I don't know whether both are actually required. > >Probably not, > > on reflection. Anyway, you should then issue the command 'killall -HUP > >inetd' to restart the inetd server daemon, and you should be set. > > > >Both these activities require root/admin privileges, of course. > > > >Tim > > -- Dr Michael A. Maibaum - (W)+1 (415) 561 1682 - (H)+1 (415) 626 6733 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.gene-hacker.net/>
