Random thoughts. (Was Stuff)

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> Ian Malone wrote:
> >
> > Well, confusion and mailing random thoughts (the latter leading to the
> > former often).
> >
> > For those interested the ducks appear to be doing quite well, and there
> > has been a fresh influx of moorhens.
> >
> > imalone
> >
> Now that is interesting. Where are they? I have some dragons that
> could use a snack?
>
> Remember, with most services, you have to restart them after making
> changes in their configuration file(s) before the change will take
> affect. Just editing a file is not enough.

yes, but there's a trick -- some services support both the "restart"
and "reload" actions, as in:

  # service fubard restart
  # service fubard reload

the first would do an actual service restart, while the second would
simply tell the service to reconsult its config file -- useful if this
is a service you really don't want to stop, even for a second.

but i know you knew that already.  :-)

rday
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