xinetd kills all child processes when SIGHUP is received ?
Issue
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The xinetd kills all child processes(SIGKILL) when sending a SIGHUP to xinetd (reload configuration).
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As per man page:
SIGHUP causes a hard reconfiguration, which means that xinetd re-reads the configuration file and terminates the servers for services that are no longer available.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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