Re: restart without rebooting

[Dave Sill]

Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>HUPing only makes qmail reread locals and virtualdomains. (And there is no
>process called "qmail," so "killall -HUP qmail" won't do anything on
>any system.)

Except possibly on Solaris:

NAME
     killall - kill all active processes

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/sbin/killall [ signal ]

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.

(I haven't tried it to see what it does with unexpected options and an
invalid signal name.)

-Dave