Appreciate the concern...my system is an IRIX 6.5 and here's the snippet
from man syslogd:
To bring syslogd down, send it a terminate signal (for example,
killall -TERM syslogd).
Thanks to all who responded!
Samuel Daffner
Mills College ITS
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Justin Bell wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 11:23:22PM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> # On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 01:29:42PM -0800, Samuel Dries-Daffner wrote:
> # >
> # > How can I move the syslog.mail file and make a new one safely?
> # >
> # > The one I have is 62 MB and represents about 15% of our root partition.
> # >
> # > Thanks in advance for any help on this :)
> #
> # mv syslog.mail syslog.mail.1
> # killall -HUP syslogd
> #
>
> I know this is good intentions and all, but please don't advise people to use
> the killall command unless you KNOW exactly what it does on their system.
>
> here is a snippet from the man page for my killall (Solaris)
> killall(1M) Maintenance Commands killall(1M)
>
>
>
> NAME
> killall - kill all active processes
>
> SYNOPSIS
> /usr/sbin/killall [ signal ]
>
> AVAILABILITY
> SUNWcsu
>
> DESCRIPTION
> killall is used by shutdown(1M) to kill all active processes
> not directly related to the shutdown procedure.
>
> killall terminates all processes with open files so that the
> mounted file systems will be unbusied and can be unmounted.
>
> killall sends signal (see kill(1)) to the active processes.
> If no signal is specified, a default of 15 is used.
>
> The killall command can be run only by the super-user.
>
> SEE ALSO
> kill(1), ps(1), fuser(1M), shutdown(1M), signal(3C)
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