<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" /> <meta name="ROBOTS" content="ALL" /> <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" /> <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true" /> <meta name="Keywords" content="cherokee web server httpd http" /> <meta name="Description" content="Cherokee is a flexible, very fast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable and extensible with plug-ins. It supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS or OpenSSL), virtual hosts, authentication, cache friendly features, PHP, custom error management, and much more." /> <link href="media/css/cherokee_doc.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" /> </head> <body> <h2 id="_a_href_index_html_index_a_8594_a_href_other_html_other_information_a"><a href="index.html">Index</a> → <a href="other.html">Other information</a></h2> <div class="sectionbody"> </div> <h2 id="_other_signals">Other: Signals</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <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> <div class="tableblock"> <table rules="all" width="100%" frame="border" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4"> <col width="20%" /> <col width="80%" /> <thead> <tr> <th align="left" valign="top">Parameters </th> <th align="left" valign="top">Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <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> </tr> <tr> <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> </tr> <tr> <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> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table">SIGTERM</p></td> <td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table">Exits</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> </div> </div> </body> </html>