Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 items

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> 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`

Yes, of course, but this was not the point of the whole
thread...:)

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

No apparent difference in the output...wait, you'll take me too
literally on that, eh? :) Both show the sasme information in the last
field../usr/local/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h :)

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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