For my systems, yes I am sure. As for other systems (and we all know that
Samba runs on _many_ systems), I can't say for sure. However, if I recall
correctly, the place where I read about it was a Samba doc... I really do
wish I could find that doc! And I think you're right about SIGHUP. If I
want to be 1.3 million % sure that Samba has re-read the smb.conf file, I
use the "/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart" command (I think that's
strictly a
RedHat thing?). I took a quick look through the "/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb"
script and it seems to essentially kill the smb and nmb processes and then
start them up again. I copied this behaviour recently for a Slackware 7.0
box that I had to set up, and it worked fine. It was a fair bit rougher
than the way RedHat handles it, but it worked. :)
Having said all that, the original post that created this particular thread
was asking how to re-read the smb.conf file without having to restart
Samba. And I think the answer to that is this: If Samba isn't re-reading
the smb.conf file AFTER IT HAS BEEN CHANGED (and within 2 minutes, max.),
you simply will not be able to have the smb.conf file re-read without
restarting Samba. I might be wrong, but I am pretty confident this time
that I'm correct. :)
And that is WAY more than I had anticipated for this E-Mail! I hope this
helps whoever it was meant to help!
Anthony.
At 02:14 a 12/12/2001, it was written:
>Are you sure this is true?
>Checking access times on my smb.conf does not support that, although I too
>thought I had read that somewhere. And, I even suspect that SIGHUP may not
>cause an immediate reloading of smb.conf.
>Joel
>On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:36:34AM +1100, Anthony wrote:
> > Samba apparently re-reads the smb.conf file every 1 minute. I have
seen
> > this to be true on a couple of my systems (a RedHat 6.2 and a RedHat
7.1
> > system, both running Samba 2.0.10). I cannot for the life of me recall
> > where I read this, but it's true. :)
> >
> > Anthony.
> >
> >
> > At 10:02 p 11/12/2001, it was written:
> >
> > >Hi
> > >
> > >Is it possible to send SIGHUP to the parant process to let samba
reread
> > >the smb.conf file, or is any way to let samba reread this file
without
> > >restarting samba
> > >
> > >regards
> > >Alaa
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Anthony (aslan@ispdr.net.au)
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