Hi Joel, pmacct processes are not reloadable, you have to stop/start upon, say, changing the configuration. But (most) maps are reloadable at runtime unless specified otherwise. To flag pmacct you want to reload a map you can send a SIGUSR2, ie. "killall -USR2 nfacctd".
Cheers, Paolo On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 10:02:58AM -0800, Joel Krauska wrote: > Does pmacct support config reload without restarting processes like BGP? > > Use case: > I'm tweaking our sampling rate, checking router CPU and UDP traffic loads. > I'll need to adjust the sampling rate in the config. > I'd rather avoid restarting the process and just 'reload' the config to get > the new sampling rate. > > Is this possible? > > Workaround?:It looks like I could change BGP to run in a separate process... > > Another line of thinking: > If I put the sampling map in a file, does that file get rechecked from time > to time or only at startup? > > Cheers, > > --Joel > _______________________________________________ > pmacct-discussion mailing list > http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists _______________________________________________ pmacct-discussion mailing list http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists
