reread newsyslog.conf without reboot

akruijff at dds.nl akruijff at dds.nl
Wed Feb 11 20:53:46 PST 2009


Quoting Fbsd1 <fbsd1 at a1poweruser.com>:

> How do I get the system to reread /etc/newsyslog.conf file with out
> rebooting the system?

This is usually done by sending a HUP signal with 'kill' to the  
newsyslog daemon. If this doesn't do it then you can kill the daemon  
and load it again with the script in /etc/rc.d/



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