On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 05:03, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 18:22, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > No, it does not reload but restart, means stop and start. To enable the > > telnet server through xinetd the proper command is > > > > service xinetd reload > > > > which reloads by sending a kill -HUP to the process. > > > > > Mike Burger > > > Alexander > > Please explain any (important to the end user) differences between > reload and restart. > > Although the process to get there is slightly different, as I understand > it the end result is the same. The daemon is running with the new > configuration. > > Thus, unless I am completely lost here, it really makes no difference to > the user which method is used to reach the same goal. > > Your explanation above, while technically correct, is irrelevant to the > end result in this case. Not quite; whilst the state of the services is the same at the end, the state during the changeover is different. Doing a reload is not only faster, but all unaltered services remain running throughout, whilst with a restart those services would have been stopped for a while. For most people this wouldn't make a different but on a busy server it might be important. So Alex's advice is "best practise". Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
