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| author | Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> | 2021-08-16 09:52:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> | 2021-08-16 09:52:58 +0200 |
| commit | 4e636b195bda344f34514ebb1a855f99b004164b (patch) | |
| tree | 8992a936f0a115aa3c60fe5cf8845085aab31f08 /man/NetworkManager.xml | |
| parent | fac255a528d295b515fdb7867aac5cab8c6f823f (diff) | |
| parent | bfe522304da217296e2a61040f58e35ec5d6f3f2 (diff) | |
Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/1.30.6'
Update to upstream version '1.30.6' with Debian dir b4583b68cbcf2c2cc2b9687a460901d0ed5f7e42
Diffstat (limited to 'man/NetworkManager.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/NetworkManager.xml | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/NetworkManager.xml b/man/NetworkManager.xml index e2ac8254..1c6b240c 100644 --- a/man/NetworkManager.xml +++ b/man/NetworkManager.xml @@ -475,9 +475,17 @@ <varlistentry> <term><varname>SIGUSR1</varname></term> <listitem><para> - The signal forces a rewrite of DNS configuration. Contrary to - SIGHUP, this does not restart the DNS plugin and will not interrupt - name resolution. + The signal forces a rewrite of DNS configuration. Contrary + to SIGHUP, this does not restart the DNS plugin and will not + interrupt name resolution. + + When NetworkManager is not managing DNS, the signal forces + a restart of operations that depend on the DNS + configuration (like the resolution of the system hostname + via reverse DNS, or the resolution of WireGuard peers); + therefore, it can be used to tell NetworkManager that the + content of resolv.conf was changed externally. + In the future, further actions may be added. A SIGUSR1 means to write out data like resolv.conf, or refresh a cache. It is a subset of what is done for SIGHUP without reloading |