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[wattie29]

Hello there,

If you kill a process eg.

root 165 1 0 inetd
kill -9 165

How would you then restart the inetd process, ot is it automatic on demand.

Cheers

Iain

 

[z28sarefun]

/usr/sbin/inetd

Usually you can do a man on a command to find out where it is, that is if `which inetd` doesn't tell you. You should check the man page before you start killing/restarting stuff anyway.

That particular process does have a run control script that starts it automatically when it enters a given run-level, /etc/rc2.d/S72inetsvc

HTH
Brian

 

[wattie29]

Thanks Brian I will give that a bash.

Cheers

Iain

 

[bfitzmai]

Wattie... You should only use "kill -9" as a last resort. "Kill -9" kills the process regardless to child processes. If there are child processes running they will become defunct processes. A better command to use for what you are doing is "pkill -HUP inetd" (Solaris 8 or newer). This command will kill and restart the process inetd.

 

[spamly]

I agree with bfitzmai. "kill -9" should really never be used if it can be avoided. A standard kill command will send a signal to the program asking it to stop itself. A "kill -9" just forces it to die- there is no graceful stopping and this can lead to some problems.

On a little side note, the "pkill -HUP inetd" doesn't actually kill and restart the processes. The "-HUP" option for inetd sends it a signal asking it to reload its config file (/etc/inetd.conf). Fairly trivial because the end result is exactly the same.

 

[wattie29]

Thanks fellas, good advice I will bear that in mind,

Cheers

Wattie

 

[jdoherty]

Can anyone please tell me if Solaris 8 x86 2/02 supports Intel hyper-threading or do I need to turn it off through the BIOS prior to installing the OS? FYI, the PC I am installing on has dual Xeon CPUs.
Thanks.