Re: SIGHUP vs comand line restart

[Chris Green <cmg () uab edu>]

Fermin Galan Marquez <galan () dit upm es> writes:

> Hello,
>
> What is it more efficient, restart Snort with SIGHUP or
> killing+restarting from comand line?
>
> Therefore, is it posible (with a signal, maybe) to 
> restart Snort without have to rebuild the chains (the
> two dimensional linked list used by the Detection 
> Engine) from the rules files? I think that it would 
> be more efficient.
>
> Thanks in advance.
In the current implemtation, HUP just execs argv over again so its
really only saving you from typing the command line again

This has been answered a few times in the archives
-- 
Chris Green <cmg () uab edu>
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