Signals (was Re: [PLUG] stopping an error ...)

Jeme A Brelin jeme at brelin.net
Tue Jun 25 20:26:53 UTC 2002


On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   Does xinetd work differently than inetd? I've the latter on my
> highly patched RH 6.2 systems and I've used /etc/rc.d/init.d/inetd
> stop and ... start rather than a SIGHUP.

Sending a stop and then a start isn't the same thing as sending a HUP
signal.

One actually stops the service's processes and restarts them whereas the
other simply triggers an chunk of code internal to the process.

J.
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