Hello Charles,

On Dec 26, 2012, at 5:38 , Charles Sprickman wrote:

> I'm not seeing anything in the documentation about what sending a HUP should 
> do to the recursor, but here I'm seeing it kill the process.
> 
> It gets a bit stranger than that though…  We had a log rotation rule setup 
> that was sending the recursor a HUP at midnight.  This was unneeded since 
> syslog is how pdns logs, so I'm not sure why we even had that there.  That 
> said, two identical boxes (same hardware, OS+version, same build of the same 
> recursor pkg) were acting differently.  The one that died on a HUP was where 
> I was originally fiddling with controlsocket owner/location/mode, the one 
> that did not die on a HUP was untouched, just running with defaults.
> 
> Removing the socket after stopping the recursor and letting it set perms 
> itself resulted in mode 700 and both now die on a HUP.  However trying 750 
> and 755 is not "fixing" it.  I'm suspicious of the socket owner/perms only 
> because that's the only thing I know was originally different between the two 
> boxes.  Setting "trace=on" in the config file gives me no further 
> information.  In both cases the recursor just exits without logging anything.


The recursor does absolutely nothing about HUP - which means you should get the 
default action, which is terminate. So, the interesting part here is one of 
your recursors *not* dying!

Kind regards,
-- 
Peter van Dijk
Netherlabs Computer Consulting BV - http://www.netherlabs.nl/

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