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Re: Help with NetInfo Manager/Enabling services reprise

Thank you, Nathan. After looking at someone's ManOpen application (I have
since installed it) I was able to deduce that signal was the same as kill,
but I have rebooted several times in the last few days when I created the
edits and my telnet service is still unavailable... still, I will give that
string of commands a shot as written by Justin and see if it makes a
difference. If successful, on my next bootup I should see telnet running in
Process Viewer, shouldn't I? I know ssh is listed as an active process. I
appreciate everyone's help here.

Cheers,

-- Lance J. Holt --
email@hidden
http://www.mactire.org



Nathan Heagy says:


first I believe signal is exactly the same as the "kill" command. Don't
let that scare you - as the name signal implies this just sends the
program a unix signal. The kill command mearly defaults to sending a
signal that tells it to shut down. The -HUP signal tells the program to
reload it's configuration.

Cat, short for concatenate, is a very tame command. It does this: prints
the contents of the files you tell it. The magic of this command is the
backticks, or "`". This tells the shell to execute their contents first as
a seperate command, and then run the entire command with the backticked
section replaced with the return value of the embedded command.

/var/run/inetd.pid is a file that contains the process id of the inetd
daemon. This id is needed to send inetd a signal.

Executed as is this command will not damage anything, and has very little
risk of doing so. The greatest risk is forgetting to type "-HUP", which is
still a problem that could be reversed in seconds.

Good Luck,

nathan

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