Re: kernel 2.2.0, portmap, ipx and so on

[Dave Mielke]

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Robert G. Brown wrote:
>There are a lot of services where if you want
>it to stop, you kill the daemon.  I can kill daemons.  Or send them a
>HUP to restart the service without killing them.

I think that you have perhaps missed the point of the guy you were quoting. It
is very easy to forget which particular mechanism is needed to stop, restart,
reload, or whatever, any given process. It's much safer to have a standard so
that you don't have to fill your memory with all sorts of needless trivia and
so that you can even more reliably operate your system.

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