[lug] Interesting Crash Report

D. Stimits stimits at idcomm.com
Fri Mar 23 10:43:51 MST 2001


Since there is only one instance of inetd running:
killall -HUP inetd

Unfortunately, xinetd doesn't seem to completely reread things done with
a kill -HUP. For that I'd use (if RH) "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart".

Brad Doctor wrote:
> 
> kill -HUP `ps ax|grep inet|awk '{print $1}'`
> 
> (those are back ticks on the ends)
> That will get the pid of the current running process.  Or you can reboot :)--
> 
> -brad
> 
> At 10:03 AM 3/23/2001 -0500, John Karns wrote:
> >On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Jarosko, Bill said:
> >
> > >UUGH... reboots, mentioned here ....uuugh... just restart inetd....
> >
> >In an effort to disable finger, I've commented out the service in
> >/etc/inet.conf:
> >
> ># finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd in.fingerd -w
> >
> >then issued "kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`"
> >
> >but finger still responds.
> >
> >Seems very strange.
> >
> >----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >John Karns                                              jkarns at csd.net
> >
> >
> >
> >



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