hostconfig process

[Justin C. Walker]

On Aug 10, 2007, at 11:11 , R.L. Grigg wrote:

> Theres a remote OSX 10.4.10 system that I administor by ssh, and  
> after I modify /etc/hostconfig, what process do I need to kill -HUP  
> to have it read up the new settings so I dont have to reboot it

You need to reboot to have this file re-scanned.  In essence, it  
provides a lot of basic settings for the system (processes that may  
run only at boot-time, or long-lived processes that have nothing to  
do with the boot process) to use, and without restarting the whole  
system, you won't get what you want.

This may have changed in recent releases, but AFAIK, this is the  
still the case.

Justin

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