Updating smb.conf without restarting samba

Brian Lalor blalor at hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu
Wed Sep 3 14:15:57 GMT 1997


On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Dave Lawson wrote:

> >>At 10:22 PM 8/29/97 +1000, Nick Parker wrote:
> >>>Can anyone tell me if it's possible to get samba to re-read smb.conf while
> >>>it's running. At the moment everytime I make changes in smb.conf I kil all
> >>>samba processes and re-run samba. Is there a better way?
It shouldn't be that hard to get [ns]mbd to reread smb.conf on a SIGHUP
signal.  Can someone add that in?

B
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