On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Mi, den 11.02.2004 schrieb don um 22:11: > > I added a new "service definition" to /etc/xinetd.d directory and now I > > want to restart xinetd so the new definition is picked up. > > > > How can I tell if xinetd actually restarted? > > # /etc/init.d/xinetd restart > or > # /sbin/service xinetd restart note that, for many services, there is both a "reload" and "restart". "restart" will, literally, kill the service and restart it. "reload", OTOH, will normally just signal the service to re-read its config file to pick up any changes that have been made. clearly, "reload" is a faster process and, if it's available, you should try that first, just to save time. rday
