re-reading a config file

[Jason Clinton]

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Rusty wrote:

| Isn't there some way to get a service to re-read its configuration file
| OTHER than stopping and restarting the service? I seem to remember that
| being a possibility, but can't remember the command(s) that work. (I
| know this isn't a lot of information, but I was having a discussion
| with a friend, had some memory of this being possible, but can't
| remember any details.) TIA for any help.

kill -SIGHUP pid

Often times the server has a process ID file in /var/run; in that case,
you can "kill -SIGHUP `cat /var/run/server.pid`" which will go grab the
process ID and append it to the SIGHUP command. Don't forget the
backticks ("`").

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