Got a question. When I

ps ax | grep xinetd

I get

931 ? S 0:00 xinetd -stayalive -reuse -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
3824 pts/2 S 0:00 emacs xinetd.conf
3900 pts/1 S 0:00 grep xinetd

My question is about the top output. I ran

kill -HUP 931

but it wouldnt die. I went to the xinetd.pid file and commented out 931 but the process still runs. Can someone tell me what this is about. Im going through and trying to close unneeded processes as this is just a home desktop.

The command:

kill -HUP 931

also know as -SIGHUP or -1, will not kill, or terminate the xinetd process. What that command will do is force xinetd to re-read it's configuration file. To kill a process, just use:

kill 931

This form of killing defaults to the -SIGTERM, -15, which tells xinetd to shut itself down gracefully. If all else fails, you can kill with:

kill -SIGKILL 931

or -9. This is a non-blockable form of kill. This form of kill can be dirty, in that it just shuts down the process, but does nothing about closing down files, ports etc that the process may have had open. -mk