[Samba] Re: restarting samba daemon - when ?

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Mon Aug 16 01:59:35 GMT 2004


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On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Jim C. wrote:

> The daemon only reads the config file during startup.  If you make a change,
> you must restart before it will be considered by the daemon.

incorrect.  each child process re-reads the config file after the fork.
Also the config file is periodically checked for updates (about once a 
minute or so).

you can force a reload via 'killall -HUP smbd' or 
'smbcontrol smbd reload-config'





cheers, jerry
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