me continuing to be dense below -- On Jul 15, 2011, at 3:05 AM, Pedro Melo wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Mr. Puneet Kishor <punk.kish@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 11, 2011, at 6:59 AM, Pedro Melo wrote:
First: Use the --pid option of plackup and give it a very descriptive name, in a well known directory. With that, you can use kill -SIGNAL_NAME `head -1 /path/to/pids/app_descriptive_name` ... You can even use tab completion. [...] What is the way to restart an already running app? Am I the only one who is a bit lost with the documentation for Starman and other servers (or, even the plackup documentation)?
Err :)... Starman perldoc, under DESCRIPTION, the Signals item starts with: "Supports HUP for graceful restarts..."...
Yes, I read that, but I don't know what that means (I know more Unix than my neighbor, but that is still waaaaay too little). I know that Ctrl-C sends a HUP, and so does `kill`, doesn't it?
Use the --pid option to write the master process pid number to a file so you don't have to use ps (which on Mac OS X lacks the -f option unfortunately).
Yes, I am able to use your suggested technique $ kill `head -1 /path/to/pidfile/with/descriptive/name` What SIGNAL can I send for a restart? Puneet.