On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 2:30 AM, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote:
> 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".
Thanks -- that works perfectly. I just assumed client-kill behaves the
same way as "kill cn" or "kill addr". It would be nice if one could restart
by cn or address as well.
Selva
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