Reload of dhcpd

[Romer Ventura]

Wouldn't the use of the init script work..? I guess it depends on your
distro...

Maybe "service dhcpd reload" works, it sure does in SLES and RHEL...




On 2/21/08 9:41 AM, "Tom Schmitt" <TomSchmitt at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a (maybe stupid) question.
> 
> I have two DHCP-servers in failovermode. Now I modify the dhcpd.conf of the
> running servers and want them to reload the config. In the documentation I
> found two possibilities to do that and my question is, which of them is the
> better one? (Or is there a third?)
> 
> Possibility 1:
> Send a kill-signal to the first server (the peer is going into
> communication-interrupted) and start it again. Then do the same with the
> second server.
> 
> Possibility 2:
> Set the first server via OMAPI to shutdown (the peer is going into
> partner-down) and start it again. Then do the same with the second server.
> 
> Any suggestion what the right way is?
> Thanks,
> Tom.

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Romer Ventura
Network Administrator
Houston-Sigma Technologies, L.P.