Comments on snippet: 'Restart lookupd (to refresh dns cache)'

remysharp said on 10/2/07

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:28:27 GMT

I've never sure whether to trust the /var/run/ directory. It should be the place to go to for all the pid files, but I'm sure in the past, I've had a process running and due to some crash (or another) the pid file wasn't right...(that doesn't sound totally correct, but it's why I tend to grab the running pid from ps).

0xced said on 9/26/07

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:04:00 GMT

Oops, cat /var/run/lookupd.pid must be between backticks.

0xced said on 9/26/07

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:01:06 GMT

Or with less pipes ;-) sudo kill -HUP cat /var/run/lookupd.pid