Everything in /etc/init.d is a shell script that can be used to restart a daemon. Usage: /etc/init.d/<foo> restart. If there's not a init.d script, ps aux|grep <foo> to get the PID, then kill -HUP <PID>. That's just about it: if it doesn't fit into one of these two categories, it's not important to the machine's continued well-being for the process to remian active, so the process itself can be taken down and restarted.
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, SamBozo Debian User wrote: >Hello to the group, > Recently there were comments made as to the "foolishness" of rebooting >just to reset an edited config file. How about a list of the cli entrys >that would have accomplished this? Are there different ones for >different config files? SHUP something? blabla stop/start/restart???? > It's a wonderful thing to already know all this... how about sharing? >And if the standard RTFM reply is to be used ... please specify which >freaking manual we are refering to reading. > Any hostility you may percieve is directed at my newbie ignorance and >the "joys"? of the learning curve ... gurrrrrrrrrrr! > >TIA, >Sam Morgan > >http://www.wcc.net/~peacemkr > > > -- Television is now so desperately hungry for material that it is scraping the top of the barrel. -- Gore Vidal John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
