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From: "Herb Martin" <HerbM AT learnquick DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Anyone running spfd on Cygwin?
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:21:39 -0500
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> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 5:45 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Anyone running spfd on Cygwin?
> 
> Herb Martin wrote:
> 
> > I can find no combination of switches that will put it into the 
> > background and leave it functional.
> 
> You should use cygrunsrv and run it as a service.  That is 
> the windows equivalent of a unix background daemon.
> 

Another great suggestion from you Brian.  I had 
become so overfocused on running it from the command
line until I could get it tested that it slipped my
mind that this could just be run as a service.

(I didn't get it tested yet -- as I am still putz
around trying to learn to use socat to test it, but
this should work and I did turn it into a service
running on a "different socket" for these tests. As
soon as I prove it's working that is the way I will
use it.)

Thanks again.

Can a Cygwin program that is being run as a service
be effectively sent a "HUP" to get it to re-read it's
configuration?

Assumptions:  That service accepts HUP and reloads its
configuration when run as a daemon.

Or must such services be stopped and restarted completely?

--
Herb Martin


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