sshd and file descriptors

[Phil Howard]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:24:13AM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote:

| Em Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 03:57:05PM +0200, Markus Friedl escreveu:
| > you could also do
| > 	sshd -t && kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sshd.pid`
| 
| Hmm, interesting, manpages are our best friends indeed:
|      sshd rereads its configuration file when it receives a hangup signal,
|      SIGHUP, by executing itself with the name it was started as, i.e.,
|      /usr/sbin/sshd.
| 
| I assumed it would only reread its configuration file, and not execute
| itself again.

It also forks a new process, too, as opposed to just exec within
the same process.

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