Re: what init systems do you use ?

[Laurent Bercot]

The signal used to request a configuration
reload from sysvinit is SIGUSR1 if I recall correctly

It must have been SIGHUP (at least in sysvinit-2.88dsf), which
reloads /etc/inittab. SIGUSR1 only closes and reopens /dev/initctl. :)

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Laurent