On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Mel Brands <bigh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've successfully installed and configured dnsmasq on my Mac laptop > and I have two quick questions. > > 1) How do you quickly tell dnsmasq to reload config files and reload > /etc/hosts (or wherever you have your hosts file)? The only way I know > is to kill the process and then load the daemon...
sending SIGHUP (kill -HUP) will reload /etc/hosts and some other configuration settings. Some settings require a process restart though, because they can only be changed during startup before dropping root privileges. > > 2) When I run any ruby script from the command line, I notice that > DirectoryService process still gets called whenever my script resolves > an IP from a name. Is there a way to bypass DirectoryService > completely on a Mac? No idea, sorry. > > Thanks! > > Melanie > > _______________________________________________ > Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list > Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk > http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss >