Re: stopping and starting daemons...

[Joseph S D Yao <jsdy gwyn tux org>]

> I am pretty familiar with UNIX but cannot figure out how to kill and
> restart the httpd daemon....or any other daemon for that matter....
> 
> I tried specifying the following:
> 
> ps -a
> 
> ps -ef
> 
> (both to see what is available)
> 
> And then I planned to use kill -9 pid
> 
> But when I invoke ps -a or ps -ef, none of the running daemons show
> up....I'm confused...I could swear this is the way it used to work...

If you're using a Berkelian 'ps', you need the "x" flag to request
processes not attached to terminals.  I run:
	$ ps axww

Joe Yao				jsdy tux org - Joseph S. D. Yao