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04-10-2004

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initscript again

hi...thanx all of you for clearing out my previous doubts....but i have some more
in the following,
reload() {
echo -n $"Reloading cron daemon configuration: "
killproc crond -HUP
retval=$?
echo
return $RETVAL

1. why is echo used here without any arguments???
2.what does the argument -HUP do here?

this is the crond script....
any answers???

also if i have to write my own server startup script, what should i do?

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