From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [204.233.198.50] (helo=romuald.net.eu.org) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17iHcp-0003C3-00 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:49:31 -0400 Received: (qmail 468 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Aug 2002 16:48:55 -0000 Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 11:48:55 -0500 From: Gregory Nowak To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: a quick linux tip Message-ID: <20020823164855.GA463@romuald.net.eu.org> References: <20020822231838.XIJN589.priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.net@a7a42593> <003001c24a43$2c1f7ac0$30a87dc2@desktop> <20020823021740.GA2521@rogers.com> <20020823135122.GD3786@asmodean.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020823135122.GD3786@asmodean.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: You don't want to use kill on named, use rndc instead. Greg On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 08:51:23AM -0500, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > Terry D. Cudney said the following on Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 10:17:40PM -0400: > > You don't "pass the exit" to another console. > > > > Rather, do a: > > > > kill -9 PID > > > kill -1 also works. I don't know all the implications of the kill > command and it's parameters however from what I've been told and what > I've seen, a -9 is usually the last resort of killing a process. Some > can just take a plain sighup -1 in the case of a bash process it will > reset it and kill the console connection. If you do a kill -1 > pid_of_named it will re-read the named.conf configuration files like if > you add new zones. If you want to kill a process that will not work > right with a -1 then -TERM -15 will do the trick. And then if those > don't work I resort to a -9 to really force it to die. > > Just my 2 cents worth. > > -- > Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. > Enjoy that gift, that's why it's called the present. > Raul A. Gallegos http://www.asmodean.net/contact.html > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup