Hi Samuel,

Try kill -1 (inetd pid) next time, or even safer... kill -HUP (inetd pid).
Systems take exception to having init killed...as you found out.
(Don't worry, you're not the first, wont be the last *grin*)

Regards
Nigel


On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 11:47:35PM +0200, Samuel Hornus wrote:

> the inetd man page says to send SIGHUP signal to it to get it reading its
> conf file again. I did `kill 1 (inetd pid)` and got a violent crash  :-(
> 
> but talk now works
> 
> thanks a lot !
> 
> -- 
> Samuel.
> 

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