restarting xinetd

[Randy Kelsoe]

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don wrote:
> I added a new "service definition" to /etc/xinetd.d directory and now I
> want to restart xinetd so the new definition is picked up.
>
> How can I tell if xinetd actually restarted?
> I use su - to get to root, then kill -s SIGHUP <pid>
> where <pid> is the pid for xinetd as returned by ps -A|grep inet
>
> I was expecting some messages like "xinetd shutting down/restarting", but
> the kill command just ends and I'm back at a command prompt.
>

Try the service command:

   service xinetd restart

or
   service xinetd stop
   service xinetd start



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