Codes for Restarting Services

[boston]

Hello,

I was wondering what commands you time in to perform services in steamcast, such as reloading the playing, deleting the logs, etc.

Thanks,

Boston-

[Jay]

to flush log files use SIGHUP
to kill the server use SIGTERM or SIGINT

in the next version
SIGWINCH can be utilized to rehash your configuration files.

[boston]

Thanks for the commands Jay.

I entered them into the command promot, however they seem not to be working.. Is there something special that i need to do?

Thanks;

Boston

[Lane]

What exactly did you enter on your command line?

[garythegeek18]

I tried the "SIGUSR1" command two ways (improperly I guess)

a:
[root@plain nsv]# SIGUSR1
-bash: SIGUSR1: command not found
[root@plain nsv]#

b:

[root@plain nsv]# ./sc_nsv SIGUSR1
/**************************************************/
/** SHOUTcast NSV Source v1.0.0/posix
/** Written by: Jay Krivanek
/** www.radiotoolbox.com/sc_nsv/
/**************************************************/

WARNING: configuaration file could not be loaded, assuming defaults
Source Program Started...
pid: 5482
Loading Playlist playlist.plo
Playlist is in object mode
Warning: 'current' in clock not defined, ignoring.
Warning: 'classic' in clock not defined, ignoring.
Loaded 4 Objects
currents: 21 items
recurrents: 44 items
clock: 7 items
Connecting to 127.0.0.1:8000
Error: Could not bind to port.
[root@plain nsv]#

[Lane]

SIGHUP isn't a command itself, but rather just an argument in another command. You typicall use kill to either kill a process, or otherwise interrupt it and have it do something like reload a conf file and continue.

Typical syntax for a SIGHUP is as follows (Jay can elaborate or correct if I'm wrong. I haven't found this info in his docs.):

# kill -HUP pid#

substitute pid# with the process number of your steamcast. The above will flush the log files according to Jay.

You can find out the pid# by either reading the file that stores the pid according to your conf file, or by doing something like this:

# ps ax | grep steamcast

[garythegeek18]

I will try that in a few minutes. It should definately be included in the documentation.

[Lane]

It might be in the docs, I just haven't looked to see.

[Jay]

well I assume you know how to use unix in my docs, otherwise I would be writing docs for all sorts of different platforms.

As an fyi if you don't want to bother finding your pid and you only have the one server on your system do:

killall -s SIGHUP steamcast