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My off-list discussion with donna brings me to a couple of questions for the
intrepid souls among us who are running various daemons, the first question
more appropriate for Halloween than Christmas: how would you like to kill
your daemons? Daemons can be killed by determining their pids and killing
these pids. With one notable exception, Apache, one must roll one's own way
of determining said pids, with another notable exception, inetd. inetd can
be killed with inetd -k. Is this a better way to get there from here than by
the other means?

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Donna Garverick [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 12:18 PM
To: Stigers, Greg [And]
Subject: Re: PX2LXD4(A)

> I never quite figured out the best way to handle multiple pids. I could
> swear that I had found something distinctive about the smbd pid, but do
not
> at the moment remember what it was. I found your switches interesting. I
> remember Lars suggesting something that would only list pids using LDEV
10.
> Was it -t? There have to be good ways to handle this, but then, I agree
with
> Mark and the guy who responded to him. Have daemons write their pids, and
> make sure that this does not get hosed up... OTOH, inetd lets me use
itself
> to tell itself to kill itself, inetd -k. Maybe THAT'S what we need!

i'd say ask out on the list.  there's wiser souls there :-)       - d