[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#833745: libvirt-daemon-system: Please use SIGUSR1 to restart virtlockd and virtlogd on upgrade

[Laurent Bigonville]

On Mon, 08 Aug 2016 14:07:59 +0200 Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org> 
wrote:

 > Hi,
 >
 > According to the virtlockd and virtlogd manpages, SIGUSR1 can be used to
 > reexec the daemon to minimize the downtime on upgrade:
 >
 > This should probably be prefered over a full restart. Not that virtlogd
 > doesn't seem to be restarted on upgrade ATM.

The systemd .service and the LSB script are apparently doing the correct 
thing when calling reload, I guess that the maintainer scripts should be 
modified to call that instead of restart