From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LoJSp-0005rk-8z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:31:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67026E05D9; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:31:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.apserver.co.uk (server2.alteredperspective.co.uk [212.13.194.103]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39CCAE05D9 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:31:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.apserver.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54AF5940D8 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:31:49 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.apserver.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server2.alteredperspective.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MlNYUV1Otx+g for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:31:48 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.0.50] (home.twigathy.com [93.96.164.20]) by mail.apserver.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2092E16C276 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:31:48 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <49D0E5E3.4010204@allenjb.me.uk> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:31:47 +0100 From: AllenJB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090326 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] reload etc conf files References: <49D0D646.3090802@logiquefloue.org> In-Reply-To: <49D0D646.3090802@logiquefloue.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 31d7726f-56de-4f73-aa50-35470903aee7 X-Archives-Hash: 32e863cbe56b1c4ffe301c5e185f3ee3 laurent wrote: > Hi, > > I finished etc-updates with a lot of files, is there a way or even need > to make all application reload the updated configuration files? > > thx > Laurent > It depends upon the software / changes involved. Many services (eg. web server, mail servers) have a "reload" option on the init script (ie. /etc/init.d/apache reload), otherwise you generally need to restart them to apply changes. Some services / daemons will pick up changes on the fly, but generally they don't in my experience. Programs which are not services / daemons will pick the changes up the next time they are run. You DO NOT generally need to reboot to make sure config changes are correctly loaded. This is not Windows. You just need to read the documentation for the software involved. AllenJB