[Samba] username map --update dynamically?

[Christian Merrill]

Eric Boehm wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 06:18:25AM -0400, Christian Merrill wrote:
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>>>>>>"Christian" == Christian Merrill <cmerrill at redhat.com> writes:
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>    Christian> My assumption is that that Samba needs to be restarted
>    Christian> before it can recognize changes made to a username map
>    Christian> file.  Is there anyway to have it dynamically recognize
>    Christian> changes?
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>That assumption is not entirely correct. New daemons will see the
>change immedidately. Already running daemons need a SIGHUP to reload
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>From "man smbd"
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>     The configuration file, and any files that it includes,  are
>     automatically reloaded every minute, if they change. You can
>     force a reload by sending a SIGHUP to the server.  Reloading
>     the  configuration  file  will not affect connections to any
>     service that is already established. Either  the  user  will
>     have to disconnect from the service, or smbd killed and res-
>     tarted.
>
>This is true for 2.2.x and 3.0.x
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How did I miss that!  Thanks Eric.
/me crawls into a hole and hides in embarrassment.

Christian