Quick samba question

[Robert Meyer]

Well, 'killall -HUP' will send a hangup to the named process(es).  A
kill is a kill is a kill...  It just sends a signal to the process.  If the
signal
happens to be a SIGKILL, then the kernel rips the process out by the roots
as long as it's not in an I/O wait state.  Most well behaved programs
trap signals and process them appropriately.  Generally, a terminate
signal (SIGTERM) is a generic signal to tell a process to go away after
cleaning up.  A hangup signal (SIGHUP) is normally sent to processes
when the controlling terminal goes away (e.g. the modem hung up)
so that they don't continue trying to send output or solicit input
from it.  For a shell, it doesn't make sense to keep running so it exits.

Hope this helps...

Cheers!
Bob
--- Robert Dege <rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > Well, looking at the script, it looks like it just sends a HUP to
> > smbd.  I imagine 'killall -HUP smbd' will work...
> 
> Wouldn't killall just kill any forked processed produced by smbd?  Since
> nmbd and smbd are 2 separate processes (daemons to be exact), a killall to
> just smbd wouldn't affect nmbd.
> 
> I really don't know... so this is more or a question than a correction.
> 
> Also, would a killall be the equivalent of kill -9 (minus the agressive
> force used by -9)?
> 
> -Rob
> 
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Bob
> > --- Justin Bennett <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com> wrote:
> > > Not an option in my init script. :( mines from the rpm on sambas
> > > download site, may not have that in that script.
> > >
> > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb reload
> > >
> > > Usage: smb {start|stop|restart|status}
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 11:32, Robert Meyer wrote:
> > > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb reload
> > > >
> > > > Cheers!
> > > >
> > > > Bob
> > > > --- Justin Bennett <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com> wrote:
> > > > > ok I just added a linux printer queqe (spell.)  and I would like to
> have
> > > > > samba read the printcap file and share the printer without having to
> > > > > restart samba and kicking anyone off their shares. Any easy way to
> > > > > refresh samba without loosing share connections on client pcs maybe a
> > > > > kill -HUP?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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