Updating smb.conf without restarting samba

[Richard Noble]

I'm not sure about the killall, but from what I understand and
have witnessed here, smbd and nmbd re-read smb.conf after it is
updated.  I am not certain how often it checks, but it seems to
check to see if the file changed and then re-reads it.

On Fri, Aug 29, 1997 at 11:24:44PM +1000, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> Nick Parker <npar at Berger-Levrault.fr> 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?
> 
> Probably doing "killall -HUP smbd" (and nmbd instead of smbd) will do it
> but I am not sure. Can anyone confirm this?
> 
> E.-
> 
> -- 
> 
> Eloy A. Paris
> Information Technology Department
> Rockwell Automation de Venezuela
> Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645

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