Re: Sophie half-dead after HUP

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From: <[email protected]>


> I'm running sophie under svscan (from the djb tools collection).  When I
> receive a pattern update from sophos, I kill running sophie instances with
> a SIGHUP, which causes them to reload.  Last night an update put sophie in
> a state such that it was up and running but hadn't created the socket.  Is
> SIGHUP the wrong way to handle these updates?

Sophie's README says "Sophie will reload patterns/configuration if it
receives HUP signal" (version 3.0x), so yes.

On my Linux systems, after getting any updates I HUP Sophie with:
kill -HUP `head -n1 /var/run/sophie.pid`

..which hasn't ever caused a problem that I can remember :)

Cheers,
Dave