On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 12:14:25AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
"Bob Hall" rjhjr@cox.net writes:
I've been SIGHUPing Dovecot when I make changes in dovecot.conf. This seemed to work fine; I made changes to the imap_listen setting and Dovecot accepted them. However, I just reset imap_listen = * and used killall instead of SIGHUP, and restarted, and Dovecot is
Don't do this on SysV (Solaris 8 has pkill instead) - killall kills EVERYTHING there. (used for shutting down the system).
I suppose "kill <pid>" is more universal than "killall <process name>"? At any rate, use whatever sends the TERM signal.
Anyways, can we please have a decent set of manual pages for dovecot before 1.0 that specifies what is re-read after SIGHUP and what needs a full restart? :->
Maybe I shouldn't have swapped keyboards during the reboot. Or maybe the keyboard uses the wrong brand of pixie dust. Or maybe I need to hit it with a hammer. Or maybe the power company flushed out some fat electrons when they cleaned the tap brushes on the dynamos...
Maybe the current was the wrong color? <shrug> ;-) (One Power Co here in Germany is called Yello Strom)
And what do they use to generate "yello strom"; starkbier?
Bob Hall