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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><br><br><div>From: lion@lion.leolix.org<br>To: icecast@xiph.org<br>Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 05:23:30 +0000<br>Subject: Re: [Icecast] Edit icecast.xml while server running<br><br><pre>Good morning,<br> <br>On Mon, 2015-10-12 at 07:16 -0700, Jack Elliott 541 848 7021 wrote:<br>> When running Icecast server on a Windows machine, I find that I can<br>> edit icecast.xml while Icecast is running, but must stop and restart<br>> Icecast for the changes to be recognized. At least right away, anway.<br>> It's possible that Icecast will eventually get around to accepting the<br>> changes later in the day but I haven't waited to find out.<br> <br>Icecast2 will not magically re-read it. To do so you need to send a<br>SIGHUP. As windows does not have real, working signals there is no way<br>to let it re-read it with the current official version.<br>But I need to recommend against running Icecast2 (or any other server<br>software) on windows anyway.<br> <br> <br>-- <br>Philipp.<br> (Rah of PH2)<br></pre><br>_______________________________________________
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