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October 14, 2019 07:15
Let unprivileged processes easily restart/reload Nginx without sudo or setuid hacks
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| # run this as root | |
| while [ 1 ]; do echo | nc -l -U /tmp/reload_nginx && /etc/init.d/nginx reload; done | |
| # or as an upstart job | |
| script | |
| echo | nc -l -U /tmp/reload_nginx && /etc/init.d/nginx reload | |
| end script | |
| respawn | |
| # now any process can run this or do the equivalent with sockets to trigger reload |