On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:33:41 -0600 Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com took out a #2 pencil and scribbled:
Miredo is run as a server from the command line:
/usr/sbin/miredo
The man page says the signal SIGTERM stops the server.
How do I send SIGTERM to the server? Or SIGHUP, as I want to make a change to the config file.
If you want to terminate the process you can find the PID via 'ps aux' and issue the command 'kill -9 pidofprocess'. If you know the name of the process you may use 'killall -9 processname'.
SIGHUP I always call 'kill -HUP pidofprocess'. Or 'killall -HUP processname'.
SIGHUP will restart the process after it has died. Such as one does with gdm-binary when meeting some unfortunate driver issue and you want to restart the process rather than kill it off entirely.
And once I get this as I want it, how do I run it at system boot?
You could put it in /etc/rc.local
Simply append '/usr/sbin/miredo to the end of /etc/rc.local
HTH
Alex White