Node received the reload signal (hup)...what does that mean?

[Roger Dingledine]

On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 08:30:01AM -0400, Brian Mearns wrote:
> I discovered my relay had shut it's self off this morning, and I found
> this log message: Received reload signal (hup). Reloading config and
> resetting internal state.
> This was followed by a bunch of errors about my config file that
> apparently prevented it from restarting (but I think I can probably
> figure these out myself).
> 
> So what's this reload signal? It happened at 4 o'clock this morning,
> and I know nobody issued any commands locally, so what gives?
> 
> Any ideas?

You probably have a deb installed (e.g. Debian or Ubuntu). It does a hup
every morning, so it can rotate its logs away.

--Roger

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