Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] reload etc conf files
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:31:37
Message-Id: 200903302330.00997.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] reload etc conf files by Neil Bothwick
1 On Monday 30 March 2009 23:21:00 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:31:47 +0100, AllenJB wrote:
3 > > It depends upon the software / changes involved. Many services (eg. web
4 > > server, mail servers) have a "reload" option on the init script (ie.
5 > > /etc/init.d/apache reload), otherwise you generally need to restart
6 > > them to apply changes.
7 >
8 > Or send them a SIGHUP - "killall -HUP processname"
9
10 Don't try that with X though...
11
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13 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com