how to restart xinetd on solaris8?

[Rayman]

I have disabled telnet in /etc/xinetd.conf,and I want this setting to
take effect without reboot,how can I do?

[Pawel PIWOWAREK]

> I have disabled telnet in /etc/xinetd.conf,and I want this setting to
> take effect without reboot,how can I do?

#/etc/init.d/inetsvc stop
#/etc/init.d/inetsvc start

or

#pkill -HUP xinetd

[Thomas H Jones II]

In article <al7bn6$hh7$1...@sunflower.man.poznan.pl>,
Pawel PIWOWAREK <no_spam!paw...@poczta.onet.pl> did thusly spew forth:

>> I have disabled telnet in /etc/xinetd.conf,and I want this setting to
>> take effect without reboot,how can I do?
>
>#/etc/init.d/inetsvc stop
>#/etc/init.d/inetsvc start

Which works if youve substituted xinetd for the stock inetd in your
Sun-supplied init.d scripts...

>or
>
>#pkill -HUP xinetd

which works if youre running a version of xinetd that reconfigures itself
based on the HUP signal. older versions (which you shouldnt be running
due to various security issues) of xinetd caught SIGUSR1 or SIGUSR2 as
their reconfiguration signal.

-tom
--

"You can only be -so- accurate with a claw-hammer." --me

[Rayman]

Thomas H Jones II <fer...@xanthia.com> wrote in message news:<unf1pjp...@corp.supernews.com>...

if I want to send SIGUSR1 or SIGUSR2 signal

is the following correct ?
KILL -USR1 xinetd
kill -USR2 xinetd

and what's the difference between pkill and kill?

[Tony Walton - Sun Enterprise Services UK]

Rayman wrote:

> if I want to send SIGUSR1 or SIGUSR2 signal
>
> is the following correct ?
> KILL -USR1 xinetd

No, "kill" should be in lower case.

> kill -USR2 xinetd

No, "kill" requires a PID (so "kill -USR1 12345" would work, "kill -USR1
foo" wouldn't.)

>
> and what's the difference between pkill and kill?

kill, as I mentioned, requires a PID (or a list of PIDs). So
traditionally you'd do something like

ps -ef|grep xinetd

then make a note of the PID (remembering to ignore the PID of the grep
command that you'll almost certainly see), then kill -WHATEVER that_PID

pkill, delivered with Solaris 7 and later, effectively stops you needing
to grep for the PID - you simply say

pkill -USR1 xinetd

to send a SIGUSR1 to all processes whose name contains "xinetd".

It's more convenient than kill because you don't get extraneous things
like the PID of the grep command. You can also add command line options
to match patterns, to limit the search to processes run by a certain
user, and so on.

The manual page for pkill and pgrep (which is similar but just displays
the PIDs rather than sending signals to them) will tell you more.
--
Tony Walton

The truth is out there. The lies are inside your head.