On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Bob Nestor wrote:

> As I recall, the mac68k port of NetBSD still ships with "exec" disabled.  
> Check to see if it's commented out in /etc/inetd.conf.  If it is 
> commented out, remove the "#" from the front of the line.  Then locate 
> the inetd process (ps -aux | grep inetd) and send it a "kill -HUP <pid>" 
> where <pid> is it's process number. You could also just reboot your 
> system after the edit, although a real UNIX Guru would locate the process 
> and kill it all in one step using a combination of ps, grep, echo, awk 
> and half the strange keys on the keyboard.

Nah.  No need for awk, echo, sed, or even ps on this one, although the
severely demented might get the pid from a ps -aux just for kicks.  ;-)

I'd say just use kill and cat.  Something like:

kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/inetd.pid)


Later,
David

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