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 mark lewis to Netsurge 
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 09 Nov 12 11:39:43 
 
ml> then there's restarting jamnntpd so that it recognises the updated
ml> config files... how'd you handle that?

 N> When jamnntpd starts I have it record it's PID in /var/run.  When a
 N> new user is added, the users.dat file's timestamp chages.  I have a
 N> script that checks the timestamp of the users.dat file every hour,
 N> if the timestamp is new then it kills the pid and restarts jamnntpd.

ahhh... that only works in some cases... i don't currently see it working on
windows and depending on the compiler used, it may or may not work on OS/2... 
)\/(ark

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