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Re: Node received the reload signal (hup)...what does that mean?



On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 08:30:01AM -0400, Brian Mearns wrote:
>> I discovered my relay had shut it's self off this morning, and I found
>> this log message: Received reload signal (hup). Reloading config and
>> resetting internal state.
>> This was followed by a bunch of errors about my config file that
>> apparently prevented it from restarting (but I think I can probably
>> figure these out myself).
>>
>> So what's this reload signal? It happened at 4 o'clock this morning,
>> and I know nobody issued any commands locally, so what gives?
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> You probably have a deb installed (e.g. Debian or Ubuntu). It does a hup
> every morning, so it can rotate its logs away.
>
> --Roger
>
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Ah, I see. It's Fedora, actually, but that makes sense. So I just need
to address the other errors so that it can restart afterwards, and it
should be fine.

Thanks for the help.
-Brian

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