On 24 February 2014 18:31, Behrooz Nobakht <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello there, > > I am not an expert in HAProxy and tried to find an answer in the docs but > not really yet clear to me. > > Here is my situation, I have a script that modifies haproxy.cfg; e.g. it may > add new endpoints, remove them, enable or disable them. > > I want to verify on which of the situations above, it is required that > HAProxy process is reloaded/restarted so that the configuration takes > effect?
To answer your exact question: absolutely no changes to the config file on disk will be picked up by the HAProxy process(es) without you first restarting/reloading the process. NB Do note that that doesn't answer the wider question about making changes to a running process' *idea* of what its configuration should be. That can be done in a variety of ways, but not via the config file itself. I'm not best placed to help you with that, however. Jonathan
