On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:34:05AM -0800, Wayne Lubin wrote: [...] > With that in mind I now see the purpose of all of the > commands except the last one. For what reason does one > have to perform > > kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid` > > In other words why must one stop the syslogd daemon? > It will only start up again upon the next reboot.
This doesn't stop the syslogd daemon. It's a notification signal to syslogd to re-read the /etc/syslog.conf. Check out syslogd(8) for more details. -- Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
