[Samba] smb.conf question

[Loo, Joseph]

My understanding reads it once (at startup) unless it receives a hup signal.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Hammer [mailto:Joel at HammersHome.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:07 AM
To: Martyn Ranyard; samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] smb.conf question


I am fairly sure kill -HUP smbd does not do an immediate reload of
smb.conf, at least not on my linux box. I am now monitoring my smb.conf
file with:

ls -al --time=acces to see how often it is accessed. Right now,
Tue Feb 12 11:58:26 EST 2002
this yields:
Feb 12 09:32 /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf

So, no reload, it seems, for over two hours.
Joel

> At 04:30 PM 2/12/02 +0000, Mark Cooke wrote:
> >Yes, it refreshes every so often (every 20-30sec's I think), though I am 
> >not 100% of the exact time, If you make a change to the smb.conf, there
is 
> >generally no need to restart samba,
> >that is unless you want an immediate response..
> 
> In which case, send the processes a HUP signal (which just reloads the 
> config file) :
> 
> (on linux) killall -HUP smbd
> 
> (on others) kill -HUP <pid of smbd>
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> >Mark
> >
> >At 04:17 PM 2/12/02, Jeff Rasnick wrote:
> >>While the Samba server is running, does it ever refresh the contents of 
> >>the smb.conf file, or do you have to restart the server for it to see 
> >>changes to the smb.conf file?  Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >>Jeff Rasnick
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