On 20/01/17 08:30, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 07:25:28PM -0500, Selva Nair wrote:
>> I would be interested in this too, but how do you trigger a reconnect from
>> the server side? I only know "client-kill CID" or "kill cn"  but the client
>> will not notice that until keep-alive timeout which would cause a long
>> disruption. Is it possible to send a sigusr1 restart to the client from
>> server?
> 
> doc/management-notes.txt fails to mention this, but the code says
> 
>     msg(M_CLIENT, "client-kill CID [M]    : Kill client instance CID with 
> messag
> e M (def=RESTART)");
> 
> ... so client-kill *should* do the right thing: tell the client "come back
> right away" (RESTART).  There also is "RESTART,[N]" which I understand to
> be "restart, but use the next server in your list" and "HALT", which is
> "kill yourself".

[...snip...]

> ... and that sounds exactly like what you're asking for :-)

Yepp!  That is my understanding of this too.

> (And update to doc/management-notes.txt might be a good thing...

I'll give it a shot soonish.

> David,
> I think you understand the management interface on the server side best

Ouch ............... ;-)

> -
> is anything else missing there?)

In regards to client-kill, I don't think so.  But if starting to
fine-read the source code, we might, as we so often do, discover new and
unknown features ... so most likely something is missing in there ;-)


--
kind regards,

David Sommerseth

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