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> On 1 Aug, Steve Youngs wrote:
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> > Generally I find that people who constantly reboot Linux are people who
> > try to do Linux things the Windoze way, and because it is easier than
> > finding out how to do it the Linux way. Rather than spending 1.5 minutes
> > finding out how to make a process re-read it's configuration they will
> > spend 3 minutes re-booting.
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> Isn't it a shame that in all your well composed message you neglected to
> say how one DOES restart a process and avoid the three finger salute?
Well its about time i chipped in here as i can contribute a few things.
Firstly to answer the killing of running processes.
You have slackware which does not use Sysv-init style scripts like redhat
does for instance, i think the thread started with referances to inetd, but
i can't quite remember anyway lets take inetd as our example.
On all distributions one can kill a process with different signals, in this
case we have edited /etc/inetd.conf so inetd must be made to reread that
file, once again we can do that in several ways, i will mention a few, of
course every option can be used in turn in different ways.
kill -HUP `pidof inetd` (Note the marks use a ` not a ')
ps ax | grep inetd
ps ax | grep -v grep | grep inetd
pidof inetd
kill -HUP xxx # where xxx is the return of the above command.
I think you get the picture by now.
man kill will show the options.
Systems which use SysV init scripts, ie Redhat, you can do it the
"so_called_linux_way"
./etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S50inet restart
Now your return address, its "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" thats fine for me to reply
to, but folks like Steve Youngs will get the message returned to them as you
are unreachable to him.
{I've been here and had that problem, and if i remember correctly Steve was
one who insisted that i do sommat about it.}
There are several ways around this problem depending on what mailer you use.
I now have 2 networks here at home, one is the old ampr.org network and the
second is my cable network connection, i will use my old configuration as an
example for you.
I use elm as my mailer, i define a REPLYTO variable in my profile which is
/home/pa3gcu/.bash_profile (note, in slackware that would be .profile, or at
least i belive thats it)
export [EMAIL PROTECTED]
elm will use that variable for its ReplyTo field, so that takes care of
receiveing mail and allowing ineternet users to reply to you.
I belive pine can be configured with astatic ReplyTo address via its config
file.
A second little thing is the SmartHost for smtp which can be defined in
/etc/sendmail.cf
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DS gw.pe1cig.ampr.org
As you see its possable to send mail to a internet gateway and receive mail
via your radio ports, that provinding that the gateway system admistrator
edits /etc/aliases and makes a valid entry for your hostname.
In the 2 examples above you will possably notice that there are 2 different
domainnames for gw.pe1cig, that are both correct, gwpe1cig.HZeeland.nl is
the Inet side of the gate and gw.pe1cig.ampr.org is the ampr.org side.
I hope i have explained it all in simple terms, i think you will find it a
whole lot beter if you use some of the examples above when sending mail.
There are, quite possably sendmail options which can be configured to send
certain domains to certain smtp servers, however i have not investigated
that one.
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> I mostly lurk on this list to read and learn and today all I've learned
> is that a newbie can be flamed even on a list touted for newbies.
Lurking is one of the best ways of getting information, lurk long enough and
you will learn more than you ever thought possable.
If you wish you can telnet to "44.137.28.48 87" {NOTE the port "87"} when
asked type your callsign, if i am at the console i will respond, we can then
discuss the matter more.
Have a nice day.
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> Scott Felton
> Slackware Linux v3.6
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.k3ir.ampr.org
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Regards Richard.
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