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Article #3550Re: logging sendmail with syslogd
From: Ralf Schwedler
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 00:00
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Todd Graham Lewis wrote: > > On 7 Feb 1996, Ravi Kumar wrote: > > > dont forget to give SIGHUP i.e, > > > > kill -HUP `cat syslog.pid` > > I see lot of people KILLHUP'ing daemons this way, but I prefer "killall > -HUP syslogd". Is there any reason why this should not be the preferred > method for HUP'ing daemons? > Maybe just that killall is not available under many other OSes - but relying on syslog.pid is also not very portable. And, of course, you cannot be 100% sure that there is really a syslog process running even if the file exists. Ralf -- Ralf Schwedler priv.: GES, USTL Montpellier 140, r Pioch de Boutonnet B 1 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5 34090 Montpellier Tel.: ++33-67 14 34 52 ++33-67 79 09 76 Fax.: ++33-67 14 39 76 WWW: http://um2gess0.ges.univ-montp2.fr:8080/homepage.html
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10c696,94a1fef176403b9b X-Google-Attributes: gid10c696,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,94a1fef176403b9b X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-Thread: f9b51,94a1fef176403b9b X-Google-Attributes: gidf9b51,public X-Google-Thread: 10669a,94a1fef176403b9b X-Google-Attributes: gid10669a,public X-Google-Thread: 10de99,94a1fef176403b9b X-Google-Attributes: gid10de99,public From: Ralf Schwedler <ralf@um2gess0.ges.univ-montp2.fr> Subject: Re: logging sendmail with syslogd Date: 1996/02/10 Message-ID: <311C7070.782C@um2gess0.ges.univ-montp2.fr> X-Deja-AN: 138692827 references: <4f8seo$oe0@ngriffin.itc.gu.edu.au> <4fb440$k0o@isg.hboc.com> <Pine.LNX.3.91.960209105731.19384D-100000@ns.election.net> to: Todd Graham Lewis <todd@wooster.org> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: G.E.S-C.N.R.S Univ. Montpellier II mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,aus.computers.linux x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.01 9000/710)