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
