Re: kernel 2.2.0, portmap, ipx and so on

[H.J. Lu]

> 
> 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.
> 

Here is an example. For knfsd, I had to be very careful about statd. It
is used by both nfs and nfsd. You may not stop statd when you stop nfs
or nfsd. You have to check if the other is still running. Do it by hand
may lead trouble.

H.J.