nginx-0.7.53

[Igor Sysoev]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 06:49:17PM -0700, Michael Shadle wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:
> 
> >  -s signal     : send signal to a master process: stop, quit, reopen, reload
> 
> so -s will find the master process somehow? does it use the pid file
> defined in nginx.conf, or the default pid file location built in to
> the  binary? or some other magic?

-s uses pid file defined in nginx.conf, if it's not defined, then built-in.

So you may use
./nginx -s reload -c /path/to/nginx.conf
or
./nginx -s reload -p /path/to/nginx


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Igor Sysoev
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