[NTLUG:Discuss] restart or reload?

[Kenneth Loafman]

m m wrote:
> All:
> 
> I always confused with restart, reload and kill -HUP pid.
> when I look/run at the rc files, there always are several options, some 
> of them is clear, like stop, start... but I am confused on the different 
> on restart and reload.

start and stop do just what they say.

reload will normally only reload the configuration data and reinit.

restart will normally do a 'stop' and a 'start' using the same script.

Only '[x]initd' should be restarted with the 'kill -HUP pid' command in 
most systems.  Read the man page.  A lot of scripts introduce or depend 
on side effects that the daemon itself may not do when run manually.

...Ken