[Kea-users] Updating kea.conf - does it need a daemon restart

Thomas Markwalder tmark at isc.org
Thu Sep 14 15:45:36 UTC 2017


On 9/14/17 11:35 AM, Neil Briscoe wrote:
> Thanks for the speedy reply Thomas.
>
> Is “kill –SIGHUP <pid for kea>” the same as “service kea-dhcp4-server restart” or is this slightly different?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Neil Briscoe | e. neil.briscoe at 6point6.co.uk | t. +44 7793 056923 <tel:+44+7557+526+550> | w. www.6point6.co.uk <http://www.6point6.co.uk/>
>
Sending SIGHUP instructs the running server to reload the configuration
file.  Using "service" to restart would actually tell the OS to stop the
current instance of the server and then restart it.

Thomas 



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