Question about service configurations |?|
 

Hi everyone,

i am using centos 5.6 and i am configuring dns mail web ...etc services on it. My question is ;

I heard about a command that allows apply new configuration without restarting the service.

What is the command and is it a good idea to apply new setup without restart or do i suppose to restart service when i make change.

Thanks for the help. :)

the service? What service?? If you mean Apache, you can use "apachectl graceful", in general you can HUP a daemon which *should* make it reread config files "kill -HUP 12345" where 12345 is the pid.

I asked for general but especially opennms because it takes long time to restart it.

well there is often no "general". OpenNMS is a fat ugly java app, you need to restart it really.

OK. i got the idea thanks for the help.;)