Hello,

I have a shell script that runs in a endless loop,

First I declare all my functions, then variables then the while loops start ... the loop never ends.

Now the little app seems to run great , I have a trap setup for SIGUP which runs a function that does a source on a config file. This is so I can change paramters on the fly.

Now it seems to work except for a few arrays don't seem to get updated, I ran some test and if Ido a source at the bottom of the while loop and make a change it is reflected, but with the SIGHUP it seems the some changes are not affected.

I feel this is because the while loop ... I hope this makes sense ... the short version is since I am stuck in a while loop, updating variables seems to be a pain in the $$$.

Thanks.

Michael.

post your while loop code, or the whole script if it isn't hundreds of lines long - don't forget code tags...

Here is part of the script ... trimmed because of size

trap restart 1

function restart
{
. config_main
}

function getfile
{
echo $POSTFILE
}

. config_main

counter=0

while [ $counter -lt 5 ];
do
getfile
sleep 2
done

That is most of the code really ... so it seems that some of the variables do not get updated with a kill -1, but if I put a ". config_main" before the sleep all changes are noticed.

Michael.

counter is not local to this loop - it should be explicitly used in the loop not somewhere else, because it is controlling the loop. If you need to, move
. config_main inside the loop as well, it does not break anything.

couter is not inside the loop because the loop should never end ... I supposed I could move the sourcing of config_main into the loop.

Michael.