Re: About to commit removal of global_backendsync code andhave one more enhancement

[Randy Kunkee <randy@randallkunkee.com>]

"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:

> At 08:55 AM 6/28/2001, Randy Kunkee wrote:
> >I have one more enhancement I'd like to offer.  This is a simple change
> >to allow a signal to the slapd process to restart the server using the
> >same arguments it was called with in the first place.
>
> The primary reason why such changes have never been added is that
> such changes tend not to be portable.  Traditional daemon restarting
> mechanisms don't work well in threaded environments and can cause
> resource leakage, dead lock, and other evils.
>
> A much safer solution is to use a script to start, stop, restart
> the daemon as needed and a wrapper script can also be used to
> restart the server upon failure.
>
> Kurt

Okay, I'll keep this one to myself, since it works in my environment.
Anybody who wants it can ask for it.

Randy