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author | Jörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff.email> | 2021-11-29 20:51:58 +0100 |
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committer | Jörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff.email> | 2021-11-29 20:51:58 +0100 |
commit | 6e3e95a9da9458ddf0874b4bd1c8ce6b47fcef27 (patch) | |
tree | 6e3667709d99f857d90b9831426f6a32ee70d113 /doc/man-sections/signals.rst | |
parent | b29f419d68b26b75a44e3ac00748875f1003b900 (diff) | |
parent | f2b3dda12a731c2e0971cb7889728edaf23f6cb0 (diff) |
Merge branch 'upstream' into develop
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diff --git a/doc/man-sections/signals.rst b/doc/man-sections/signals.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..63611b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/man-sections/signals.rst @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +SIGNALS +======= + +:code:`SIGHUP` + Cause OpenVPN to close all TUN/TAP and network connections, restart, + re-read the configuration file (if any), and reopen TUN/TAP and network + connections. + +:code:`SIGUSR1` + Like :code:`SIGHUP``, except don't re-read configuration file, and + possibly don't close and reopen TUN/TAP device, re-read key files, + preserve local IP address/port, or preserve most recently authenticated + remote IP address/port based on ``--persist-tun``, ``--persist-key``, + ``--persist-local-ip`` and ``--persist-remote-ip`` options respectively + (see above). + + This signal may also be internally generated by a timeout condition, + governed by the ``--ping-restart`` option. + + This signal, when combined with ``--persist-remote-ip``, may be sent + when the underlying parameters of the host's network interface change + such as when the host is a DHCP client and is assigned a new IP address. + See ``--ipchange`` for more information. + +:code:`SIGUSR2` + Causes OpenVPN to display its current statistics (to the syslog file if + ``--daemon`` is used, or stdout otherwise). + +:code:`SIGINT`, :code:`SIGTERM` + Causes OpenVPN to exit gracefully. |