SIGHUP signal

[Grozdan]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Paul Slootman <paul+rsync at wurtel.net> wrote:
> On Sat 15 Feb 2014, Perry Hutchison wrote:
>> Hiroyuki Ikegami <ikegam at mixallow.net> wrote:
>> > 2014-02-15 7:39 GMT+09:00 Grozdan <neutrino8 at gmail.com>:
>> > > Yesterday, I changed my rsyncd.conf file to add one more module to it.
>> > > Then I sent a kill -HUP $pid signal to rsync running in daemon mode,
>> > > but what gives? It just died so I had to start it up again. I though
>> > > sending a HUP would just make it reload its config file, no?
>> >
>> > Many softwares catches SIGHUP as a trigger to reload configurations.
>> > But it is a kind of software design. If the programmer does not want to
>> > write signal handling code, the programs received HUP just dies.
>>
>> This really ought to go on the to-do list.  It is a very
>> longstanding convention that a daemon should reinitialize itself
>> (for some reasonable definition of reinitialize) upon receiving
>> a SIGHUP.
>
> Why should the code be modified to help those that don't read
> the docs properly?
>
> From the rsyncd.conf manpage:
>
>        Note that you should not send the rsync daemon a HUP signal to force it
>        to reread the rsyncd.conf file. The file is re-read on each client con‐
>        nection.

Ah, thanks. I missed that while reading. So i don't have to do
anything if I change the conf.

>
>
> Paul
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