On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, David A. Gatwood wrote:

> 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)
> 
> 
	NetBSD even ships with a helpful alias for this - 'hup',
	or in this case 'hup inetd'. To work out which daemons this
	will work for type 'ls /var/run/*.pid'.
	I particularly like 'hup ppp0' :)
	
		David/absolute

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