[Icecast] Edit icecast.xml while server running

[Jeremiah Rogers]

How do I send SIGHUP?

Jeremiah Rogers
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> On Oct 22, 2015, at 00:50, Philipp Schafft <lion at lion.leolix.org> wrote:
> 
> Good morning,
> 
>> On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 10:02 -0700, M M wrote:
>> I believe many Windows devs would just monitor the filesystem for
>> changes to the config file, and then re-read it when it has changed.
> 
> I was told that I implemented config reload via the web interface for
> that reason[0]. Seems I forgot about it. I'm sorry for that.
> You can find it as a button in the 'Global server stats' section in the
> admin area[1].
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> 
> [0] to support it on windows. However it seems to be a nice feature
> anyway and is non-windows specific.
> [1] That is in 2.5.x. See #2018.
> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: lion at lion.leolix.org
>> To: icecast at xiph.org
>> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 05:23:30 +0000
>> Subject: Re: [Icecast] Edit icecast.xml while server running
>> 
>> Good morning,
>> 
>>> On Mon, 2015-10-12 at 07:16 -0700, Jack Elliott 541 848 7021 wrote:
>>> When running Icecast server on a Windows machine, I find that I can
>>> edit icecast.xml while Icecast is running, but must stop and restart
>>> Icecast for the changes to be recognized. At least right away, anway.
>>> It's possible that Icecast will eventually get around to accepting the
>>> changes later in the day but I haven't waited to find out.
>> 
>> Icecast2 will not magically re-read it. To do so you need to send a
>> SIGHUP. As windows does not have real, working signals there is no way
>> to let it re-read it with the current official version.
>> But I need to recommend against running Icecast2 (or any other server
>> software) on windows anyway.
> 
> -- 
> Philipp.
> (Rah of PH2)
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