[Bug 1035033] Re: bin/mailman --help could be improved

[Barry Warsaw]

The 'reopen' command essentially causes the master watcher to SIGHUP the
runner subprocesses.  Right now all this does is reopen their log files,
so it's there primarily to support log rotation.  It would be nice if
the runners could re-read their configuration files, but I suspect that
will be difficult.  Also, for correctness, the master should also re-
read the configuration file.

Yep, restart causes the master to SIGUSR1 all the runners.  They exit,
but with a status that the master recognizes as a restart, so it does.
This does have the effect of reloading all the configuration files of
course, but only for the runners, not for the master (though it may not
matter much).

Take a look at src/mailman/bin/runner.py for details.  I'll assign this
to you, unmilestoned.  If you want to take a crack at config file
reloaded, go for it, but if not (i.e. starting and stopping might be
good enough), just mark this as Invalid.

** Changed in: mailman
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: mailman
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: mailman
   Importance: Low => Wishlist

** Changed in: mailman
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Stephen Turnbull (stephen-xemacs)

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  bin/mailman --help could be improved

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