Reload Childs..

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Sebastian Wiesinger [mailto:sw at INTERNETX.DE]
> Envoyé : Thursday, October 30, 2003 3:34 PM
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : Re: Reload Childs..
> 
> 
> * Hirsh, Joshua <joshua.hirsh at PARTNERSOLUTIONS.CA> [2003-10-30 21:17]:
> > (Mind the line wrap)
> >
> > [root at PSLINMF01 root]# ps axf | grep MailScanner | wc -l
> >       6
> > [root at PSLINMF01 root]# cat /var/run/MailScanner.pid
> > 1825
> > [root at PSLINMF01 root]# kill -HUP -- -1825
> >  Seems to do something for me ;)
> 
> Yeah.. for me too. I didn't know that kill could do something like
> that..

Kill can send any of the numerous signals available.  There is a misconception that kill can only 'put to death' a process, since the default signal of the kill command is 15 - TERM (terminate).  A kill -9  is even more pityless.  

http://osr5doc.ca.caldera.com:457/OSUserG/_Signals_available_under_u1.html

For a full list of the UNIX signals, see signal(S).

If you knew that, just ignore my post.

Ugo

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