Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 items

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> Okay, now you risk getting on my bad side :) I know what PPID
> stands for...now you tell me which of these processes to SIGHUP:
>
> root 18942 22213 0 13:22:03 ? 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
> root 18946 22213 0 13:22:03 ? 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail

2 open connections.

> root 18948 1 0 13:22:04 ? 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail

a local delivery spawned by an open connection that closed and left the
local delivery to finish, thus orphaning it to init (PID1)

> root 22213 1 0 Oct 26 ? 1:40 /usr/local/sbin/sendmail

The listener.

> And ya, I know, the one with the older date...the point is that
> you can't really automate this, except to do:

You're trying to kill the listener?

You do know you can use truss and lsof to figure this out as well right?

Or you could do:

kill -HUP `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`

Also, check out what the BSD style ps shows under Solaris (/usr/ucb/ps).

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