hang on exit - bug or no bug?

[Pekka Savola]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Nicolas Williams wrote:

> No, don't modify your OS' startup scripts, just run them differently.
>
> Look, the fds are left open, so you potentially lose data, but you don't
> care, right? So why not run those scripts like so:
>
> ssh -n root at somehost /etc/init.d/syslog stop
> ssh -n root at somehost /etc/init.d/syslog start \>/dev/null 2\>\&1

IMO, if 'ssh root at somehost /etc/init.d/syslog restart' hangs, it's
probably syslogd at fault there, not the scripts.

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