[stunnel-users] service reconfiguration by SIGHUP

Hans Werner Strube strube at physik3.gwdg.de
Wed Dec 13 09:42:50 CET 2006


Matthew Eaton wrote:
> I've created a patch to Stunnel that reloads all accepting connections
> from the config file. This will not work for privileged ports in the
> current implementation.

Please explain why it will not work for privileged ports.
Does this hold even if the master stunnel process runs as root?
And what happens to active connections on SIGHUP? Are they simply broken?



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