* Matthew S Elmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-27 20:55]: > Though I have been successfully running dhcpd myself for a few years > now, it has come to my attention when writing some scripts to help > maintain systems that there is no /var/run/dhcpd.pid file.
> Is this by design? yes. pid files are useless. > I understand many are not fans of having lots of pid files laying around > their box. What then is the recommended way of killing and restarting > the daemon? pkill(1) -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
