Allowing telnet connection

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 05:03, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 18:22, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > No, it does not reload but restart, means stop and start. To enable the
> > telnet server through xinetd the proper command is
> > 
> > service xinetd reload
> > 
> > which reloads by sending a kill -HUP to the process.
> > 
> > > Mike Burger
> > 
> Alexander
> 
> Please explain any (important to the end user) differences between
> reload and restart.  
> 
> Although the process to get there is slightly different, as I understand
> it the end result is the same.  The daemon is running with the new
> configuration. 
> 
> Thus, unless I am completely lost here, it really makes no difference to
> the user which method is used to reach the same goal.
> 
> Your explanation above, while technically correct, is irrelevant to the
> end result in this case.

Not quite; whilst the state of the services is the same at the end, the
state during the changeover is different. Doing a reload is not only
faster, but all unaltered services remain running throughout, whilst
with a restart those services would have been stopped for a while. For
most people this wouldn't make a different but on a busy server it might
be important. So Alex's advice is "best practise".

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>