[Dnsmasq-discuss] Second question

[Ken Gillett]

I think I’ve figured this out.

SIGHUP causes dnsmasq to re-read the ‘opts’ files, but it does NOT re-read any ‘conf’ files.

So a significant and possibly very useful difference.

Any other differences anyone knows?


Ken  G i l l e t t

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> On 16 Mar 2021, at 15:39, Ken Gillett via Dnsmasq-discuss <dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk <mailto:dnsmasq-discuss at lists.thekelleys.org.uk>> wrote:
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> --dhcp-optsfile/dir and/or --conf-file/dir point to external files/dirs. My question then is:-
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> What’s the difference between these ‘opts’ and ‘conf’ files?
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> As far as I understand, they would both contain dnsmasq configuration options (without the --) so is there a difference, or are they both just different ways of specifying external configuration files of options?

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