Send SIGHUP

[Gary Stainburn]

I'm jumping in late here, but don't the daemons just check the mdate and only 
if the file's been modified to they reload?

Someone could try this by touching the smb.conf to see what happens.

Gary

On Tuesday 11 December 2001 3:14 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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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