X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=dss.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=dss.ggo;h=e91a4c5b90d4fd7ca015f77bf3264ff06e0e6b03;hp=46b4271936d1ae7e1fe7e958d0ecc7ce55ed876b;hb=cbd7c2d1bf41d2c14ace21b75b2362e8b151f99b;hpb=a002cd5d2c29369caf8782a607cecedcb9cbafee diff --git a/dss.ggo b/dss.ggo index 46b4271..e91a4c5 100644 --- a/dss.ggo +++ b/dss.ggo @@ -21,6 +21,17 @@ details=" configuration file. As usual, if an option is given both at the command line and in the configuration file, the command line option takes precedence. + + However, there is an important exception to this rule: + If the --run option was given (see below) then dss honors + SIGHUP and re-reads its configuration file whenever it + receives this signal. In this case the options in the config + file override any options that were previously given at the + command line. This allows to change the configuration of a + running dss process on the fly by sending SIGHUP. + + Note that it is not possible to change whether dss runs as + background daemon by sending SIGHUP. " option "daemon" d