"MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)" wrote:
>
> The way samba is coded, every time a new smbd gets spawned, it reads the
> smb.conf file;
> so a change to the smb.conf file will get picked up by any NEW connections
> ,since each
> new connection gets its own smbd.  Also you can 'force' current smbd's to
> re-read the
> smb.conf file by sending a kill -HUP <processid> to the process ids of the
> smbds.
> Perhaps inetd -c is getting inetd to not only reread its inetd.conf file,
> but to 'HUP'
> the services under its control... I wasn't aware that inetd did that. My
> bad..
> Don

AFAIK, inetd DOES NOT send any signals to any of its child processes.
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