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| author | louiz’ <louiz@louiz.org> | 2017-03-12 16:52:46 +0100 |
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| committer | louiz’ <louiz@louiz.org> | 2017-03-12 16:52:46 +0100 |
| commit | 2d3806152e854ace7533fc3ad34d4ac1c44e9687 (patch) | |
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Doc: reformulate the signal part, to mention the re-opening of log files
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diff --git a/doc/biboumi.1.rst b/doc/biboumi.1.rst index 31b27bf..353638d 100644 --- a/doc/biboumi.1.rst +++ b/doc/biboumi.1.rst @@ -38,9 +38,10 @@ Configuration The configuration file uses a simple format of the form ``option=value``. Here is a description of each possible option: -The configuration can be re-read at runtime (you can for example change the -log level without having to restart biboumi) by sending SIGUSR1 or SIGUSR2 -(see kill(1)) to the process. +Sending SIGUSR1 or SIGUSR2 (see kill(1)) to the process will force it to +re-read the configuration and make it close and re-open the log files. You +can use this to change any configuration option at runtime, or do a log +rotation. hostname -------- |