How do I stop Ramona or load a new configuration?

[larsks]

I've just started looking at Ramona, and one of the first things I wanted to do -- after getting a service up and running -- was enable the http frontend to see what that looked like.

I wasn't able to find any way of loading a new configuration into Ramona. There doesn't appear to be any sort of reload command, and trying the typical kill -HUP solution simple caused Ramona to exit, while leaving my service running (which of course prevented Ramona from subsequently starting it up until I killed it manually).

I also wasn't able to figure out how to cause the Ramona server to exit, other than by running ps, looking for the ramona server, and then kill it by pid.

[ateska]

Hello,

very good :-)

Reload command is commonly requested feature - but it is not implemented (yet) and probably it will never be. It can get quite nasty when you are changing configuration of running program etc.
But point taken, 'reload' command is on the roadmap and I'm time to time evaluating its implementability.
Based on my experience, 'restart' command is usually correct choice (changes in Ramona configs are usually quite rare since once written).

I will test and eventually fix reaction to kill -HUP, it should initiate restart command.

And finally: Ramona should exit when 'stop' command stops its last running child (sub-process) unless option is given to keep it 'resident'.
See http://ateska.github.io/ramona/manual/cmdline-stop.html (argument --stop-and-exit).

[ateska]

HUP signal support is traced in dedicated item #31