Re: usher documentation

Timothy Brownawell <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Nov 2015 21:41:39 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.monotone.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/27/2015 07:03 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>> I'm specfically looking to find out how to get usher to reread the
>>> configuration file.
>> It tries to be a good Unix daemon, and catches SIGHUP for this. There's
>> also a command thru usherctl.
> Either it didn't work, or I don't know how to SUGHUP.
>
> I tried kill -1 <process id>
>
> After that the usher process was still running, but I couldn't connect to
> it.
> Actually killing it completely and then restarting it from scratch made
> it work again.  Upon restarting, of course it read the new configuration.
...yep, it's broken. :(

I pushed a couple new revisions on nvm.contrib.usher, one with a test 
that fails if it hangs on SIGHUP and one that makes that pass.

The last revision 591a8f14... ought to work, or at least to fail 
differently if there are other related problems.