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<h2 id="_other_signals">Other: Signals</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p><a href="other_bundle_cherokee-admin.html">Cherokee-Admin</a> is all you need to
interact with Cherokee. However, should you want to tap directly into
the underlying communication mechanism you would need to send the
supported signals to the <a href="other_bundle_cherokee.html">cherokee</a> process.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If needed it will relay the appropriate signals to any
<a href="other_bundle_cherokee-worker.html">cherokee-worker</a> instances.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The following signals are supported by Cherokee:</p></div>
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<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table">SIGHUP</p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table">Restarts the server gracefully</p></td>
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<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table">SIGUSR1</p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table">Restarts the server closing all the opened connections</p></td>
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<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table">SIGUSR2</p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table">Reopens the log files</p></td>
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<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table">SIGTERM</p></td>
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