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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2009-11-09 14:46:38 -0800 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2009-11-09 14:46:38 -0800 |
| commit | 3fbe1d307e27ed99528d83cf866c7df497e58b77 (patch) | |
| tree | 44f4b56114eb2d4e4f093e3378aefaf823283e57 /INSTALL.Linux | |
| parent | fde05aded2906e113d02aa13d207d9a6e3e0ea99 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-3fbe1d307e27ed99528d83cf866c7df497e58b77.tar.gz | |
Make ovs-appctl easier to use and synchronize its interface with ovs-vsctl.
It is inconvenient to type the whole path to the Unix daemon socket when
using ovs-appctl. Allow the name of the daemon to be used instead when
a pidfile exists in the default location, and contact ovs-vswitchd by
default.
Also, the various options for manipulating vlog were invented before the
general-purpose command mechanism existed. Get rid of all of the action
options in favor of just specifying the command to be executed as
non-option arguments.
Finally, there simply wasn't much value in allowing multiple targets or
options to be specified; these variations were never used in practice. So
simplify the interface by making it one target, one action per invocation.
Also, make ovs-vsctl use the same syntax for its --target option.
Based on work by Justin Pettit.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.Linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.Linux | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.Linux b/INSTALL.Linux index 9767f99bb..38b0269a1 100644 --- a/INSTALL.Linux +++ b/INSTALL.Linux @@ -156,14 +156,12 @@ respectively. At runtime, you may make ovs-vswitchd reload its configuration file and update its configuration accordingly by sending it a SIGHUP -signal. The ovs-appctl utility can also be used to do this with a -command such as: +signal. The ovs-appctl utility can also be used to do this: - % ovs-appctl -t <pid> -e vswitchd/reload + % ovs-appctl vswitchd/reload -where <pid> is ovs-vswitchd's process ID. In the latter case, -ovs-appctl will not exit until the reload and reconfiguration is -complete. +In the latter case, ovs-appctl will wait for ovs-vswitchd to finish +reloading before it exits. Bug Reporting ------------- |