On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Lee Larson wrote:
> On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 09:30 AM, Bill Rising wrote: > > > What does the -hup signal do? I know it stands for 'hangup', but how > > would the command with the -HUP signal be different than > > > > killall lookupd > > killall lookupd kills it dead and leaves it that way. > > killall -HUP lookupd kills it and then restarts it. Apologies if you were simplifying things here Lee. Does it really restart it? My understanding of -HUP is that it is up to the process as to what it does. Many just reload their config file, but don't restart. ie) on linux servers, there's a difference between /etc/rc.d/apache reload and /etc/rc.d/apache restart. Hen The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
