On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Ethan wrote: > that's strange. I am running LM 8.1 and issued the command as root in > the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ driectory. typing xinetd by itself gets no > response. And I believe that xinetd is the default - for without it, ftp > and other services cannot run... > > man xinetd shows that sending the signal SIGUSR2 will cause a hard > reconfiguration... but how do you do that. I tried kill -SIGUSR2 xinetd > but it does not work. pls advise. thank you. > Did you tab out the xinetd like typing /etc/rc.d/init.d/xin then tab, just to make sure it's even there or try /etc/rc.d/init.d/./xinetd restart(or start if it isn't running). See if it is even running: ps -aux | grep xinetd. Other than that it is very strange because it works fine here and I'm using LM 8.1 as well.
-- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org
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