*- On 6 Oct, Kent West wrote about "Samba: When does smb.conf get read?"
> Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places, but I can't find the
> answer in any of the docs/web sites.
>
> I've installed Samba, and left the workgroup=workgroup. Accordingly,
> when I started browsing for my Debian box via Windows' Network
> Neighboorhood, I found it in the "Workgroup" workgroup. Wanting to
> change that, I found in the docs that I simply needed to change the
> "workgroup=" line to whatever workgroup I wanted to be in.
>
[snip]
>
> Surely I don't need to reboot?! Surely I'm just missing something basic?
> So my two questions are:
Reboots are only necessary for kernel upgrades. There other isolated
incidents but they are special cases.
>
> 1) Whenever I make a change to /etc/samba/smb.conf, what do I have to do
> to make the change active? In other words, what does it take to get the
> system to reread smb.conf?
>
[snip]
>
> Actually, one more question: where in the documentation might I have
> found these answers?
>
man smbd
SIGNALS
Sending the smbd a SIGHUP will cause it to re-load its
smb.conf configuration file within a short period of time.
i.e.
kill -HUP `pidof smbd`
Brian Servis
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