No SIGUP for xinetd? Was: [H-GEN] Web page creation on windows, serving on linux

[Harry Phillips]

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ben.carlyle at invensys.com wrote:
>>
>>>On most systems, you then need to tell inetd that things have
>>>changed.  On most modern Unix systems with a modern /bin/sh, the
>>>following incantation, as root, will do it:
>>>
>>>    kill -1 $(cat /var/run/inetd.pid)
>>>
>>>I don't use xinetd[1], so I won't comment on that case.
>>>
> 
> 
>>When you use xinetd you edit the file /etc/xinetd.d/proftp-xinetd file 
>>and there is no need for doing the kill -1... thingy.
> 
> 
> Uhhh, really?
> 

(Harry starts doubting his memory)
(Harry runs experiment on his box)
(Harry doubts the results of experiment)
(Harry searches Google)

No, I was wrong, you do need to reload/restart xinetd :)

On my Mandrake box the command is "/etc/init.d/xinet reload"

So I was sort of right you don't have to do the kill -1... (but you do 
have to get xinetd to reload/restart :)

-- 
Regards,
Harry Phillips
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     it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.


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