From 1079962e4c06f88a54e50d997c1b7e84303d30b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernhard Schmidt Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 21:29:50 +0200 Subject: New upstream version 2.5~beta1 --- doc/man-sections/signals.rst | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/man-sections/signals.rst (limited to 'doc/man-sections/signals.rst') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3