Send SIGHUP

Joel Hammer Joel at HammersHome.com
Tue Dec 11 07:18:13 GMT 2001


Are you sure this is true?
Checking access times on my smb.conf does not support that, although I too
thought I had read that somewhere. And, I even suspect that SIGHUP may not
cause an immediate reloading of smb.conf.
Joel
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:36:34AM +1100, Anthony wrote:
> Samba apparently re-reads the smb.conf file every 1 minute. I have seen 
> this to be true on a couple of my systems (a RedHat 6.2 and a RedHat 7.1 
> system, both running Samba 2.0.10). I cannot for the life of me recall 
> where I read this, but it's true. :)
> 
> Anthony.
> 
> 
> At 10:02 p 11/12/2001, it was written:
> 
> >Hi
> >
> >Is it possible to send SIGHUP to the parant process to let samba reread
> >the smb.conf file, or is any way to let samba reread this file without
> >restarting samba
> >
> >regards
> >Alaa

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