On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am unable to determine how to HUP a daemon Your doc is telling you that you can send the process a signal--in this case a hangup or HUP--to ask it to reload its configuration. The signal-sending program in unix is 'kill'. So the command: kill -HUP <processnumber> will send the proper signal to the process with the given number. There are several ways to find the process number. A simple one that usually works is to search the output of the ps command for the process name. In your case: ps -Al | egrep 'exim' will return ps report lines that contain the string 'exim'. Substitute the number in the 4th column--the PID field--for <processnumber> in the kill command above (sometimes the "egrep 'exim'" command itself will be returned in the report. Don't use that line.). If your daemon can be down for a few moments, you can simply execute the command: /etc/init.d/exim restart Or, if that doesn't work (sometimes doesn't, don't know why), issue two commands: /etc/init.d/exim stop /etc/init.d/exim start Hope this helps. Best, -=greg
