RE: start/stop services...

[Uncle Meat <kcsmart worldinter net>]

On 31-May-99 Ed Costa opined:
> A basic question I can't seem to find any info on...
> 
> How do I stop and start a service without having to do a reboot of my
> box?
> 
> Every time I change something in my smb.conf I kill the service then
> type "smbd -D" but the services don't show as started anymore.

As root:        /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop
                /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start

Some use:       /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart

but, that doesn't work well on all daemons. Don't know about samba
since I've never tried it.

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