Daemon Process

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-05-16 18:48, "Sergey S. Ropchan" <fenix at ramb.com.ua> wrote:
> Monday, May 16, 2005, 6:41:03 PM, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I want to know how can I programmatically restart a dead daemon
> > process in Unix?
>
> You can restart daemon process with:
>
> kill -HUP `cat /path/to/processname.pid`

Note the daemon is 'dead'.  You can't signal a dead process.