Completely disregard this second question. I’ve been staring at dhcp this and 
dhcp that for so long I’ve become word blind and simply not seeing that it’s 
DHCP-optsfile and just relates to DHCP options rather than dnsmasq options.

Time to take a break.

My apologies.


Ken  G i l l e t t

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> On 16 Mar 2021, at 16:16, Ken Gillett via Dnsmasq-discuss 
> <dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk 
> <mailto:dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk>> wrote:
> 
> I think I’ve figured this out.
> 
> SIGHUP causes dnsmasq to re-read the ‘opts’ files, but it does NOT re-read 
> any ‘conf’ files.
> 
> So a significant and possibly very useful difference.
> 
> Any other differences anyone knows?
> 
> 
> Ken  G i l l e t t
> 
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> 
> 
> 
>> On 16 Mar 2021, at 15:39, Ken Gillett via Dnsmasq-discuss 
>> <dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk 
>> <mailto:dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk>> wrote:
>> 
>> --dhcp-optsfile/dir and/or --conf-file/dir point to external files/dirs. My 
>> question then is:-
>> 
>> What’s the difference between these ‘opts’ and ‘conf’ files?
>> 
>> As far as I understand, they would both contain dnsmasq configuration 
>> options (without the --) so is there a difference, or are they both just 
>> different ways of specifying external configuration files of options?
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