[KLUG Members] Re: Re:Samba reprocess config file questions

[Bob Kanaley]

> Date: Fri,  8 Mar 2002 14:42:42 -0500
> From: adam@morrison-ind.com
> To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Re:Samba reprocess config file questions
> Reply-To: members@kalamazoolinux.org

> >I think the killall -1 will just increase my logging level by one.
>
> ?
>
> -1 = -HUP

Shows how little I know, I thought the killall -1 was the same as
SIGUSR1!!!!

<SNIP>

> Log rotate does this because (according to UNIX symattics) one can't
remove or
> truncate an open file.  Samba has the log files open for logging,  thus it
> needs Samba to release them (which HUP does) so that it can rotate them.

Oh, that makes perfect sense to me, NOW!!!

Thanks for the sysadmin class, Lord knows I need it.