Re: How to send a signal to a process ?

From: Matt Giwer <jull43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:55:51 -0500

Aaron Gray wrote:

How do I send a SIGHUP to ProFTPd who's PID is in '/var/run/run/proftpd.pid' ?

I simply use

pkill name-used-to-start-it

such as

pkill gftp

Sometimes it does not work and I have to drop to root to make it work.

There are certainly better ways but this is simplest.

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