[brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba

[-ray]

Some daemons will reread their config file if you send the PID a hangup 
(HUP) signal.  It's faster than a full restart.  Apache and BIND come to 
mind.  killall -HUP httpd.  On Redhat-ish system, you could try the 
service 'reload' argument as well:  service named reload.

Related note:  Apache will close and reopen it log file handles when you 
send it a USR2 signal.  This lets you rotate the log files without 
stopping the web server.

ray


On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, John Hebert wrote:

> Yeah, after thinking about it, I think you are correct. _Any_ service 
> must be restarted when a change is made to its configuration file. 
> Somebody correct me if that is not true.