[Initng] Posibility to send another signals than INT or HUP to daemon

[Ismael Luceno]

Jan Molič escribió:
> Hello,
> 

Hi, nice to see new users arond :).

> I'm qmail user.  Bernstain's soft heavily use signals. For example qmail-send 
> rescans email queue if get ALRM. Other useful signals are USR1, USR2, CONT, 
> or STOP.
> 
> Would be possible to extend ?daemon? plugin to be able to send these signals?

It is possible, but the question isn't that, the question is:
is needed?, and why?.

> 
> Maybe do it universal, like this:
> 
> ngc --signal ALRM daemon/qmail-send
> 

This looks a lot better, and isn't a bad idea at all, we will add some
feature to ease sending signals to services to 0.7.0 :).

> (of course, there's possibility to get PID of the daemon and then kill it, but 
> it isn't as nice as native solution)

You should do that for now, 0.6.x will only receive bugfixes.
trunk will be full of new features, but isn't ready yet...


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