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Re: Existing connections are getting lost on config file reload (signal SIGHUP)

 

Hi Roger,
The issue was only  with the broker with password authentication sorry for
the confusion.
Thanks for the quick fix.

With Regards,
Saurabh Patil.


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Prashant Kedia
<prashantkedia22@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Thanks Roger,
>
> Cheers,
> Prashant
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Roger Light <roger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Saurabh,
>>
>> I reproduced Prashant's issue, but have not yet been able to reproduce
>> yours. I've pushed a fix for Prashant's issue to the 1.2 branch.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:40 AM, saurabh patil <saurabhpatil786@xxxxxxxxx
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Roger,
>>> Any updates on the issue,have you reproduce it in your environment.
>>>
>>> With Regards,
>>> Saurabh Patil.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Prashant Kedia <
>>> prashantkedia22@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Roger/Saurabh,
>>>>
>>>> I could reproduce the issue too. Below are my observations:
>>>>
>>>> 1) The issue reproduces only when we are using password file and there
>>>> are some entries in password file during reload.
>>>>
>>>> 2) If there are no entries in password during reload then it does not
>>>> affect the existing client connections. But the users previously loaded by
>>>> broker from the password file are still valid even after reload. Still able
>>>> to publish and subscribe with deleted username-password.
>>>>
>>>> 3) Reload does not affect the clients which gets connected without any
>>>> username-password (allow_anonymous true).
>>>>
>>>> 4) Tried with multiple client connection. It affects all clients
>>>> connected with username-password.
>>>>
>>>> Here are the contents of my config file:
>>>>     allow_anonymous false
>>>>     bind_address localhost
>>>>     port 1883
>>>>     password_file /home/prashant/temp/pwfile.txt
>>>>
>>>> 5) I could not reproduce the issue with no password file for
>>>> authentication.
>>>>
>>>> Test Environment:
>>>> mosquitto version: 1.0.5 (build date 2012-11-03 12:29:20+0000)
>>>> Platform: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic #28-Ubuntu GNU/Linux
>>>>
>>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>>> Prashant
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Roger Light <roger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Saurabh,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm afraid I don't see this behaviour. Could you tell me what OS you
>>>>> are running on? Could you also repeat it with two clients connected and
>>>>> check whether they are both affected?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Roger
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:34 AM, saurabh patil <
>>>>> saurabhpatil786@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Roger,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mosquitto documentation says:
>>>>>> password_file *file path* Reloaded on reload signal. The currently
>>>>>> loaded username and password data will be freed and reloaded. *Clients
>>>>>> that are already connected will not be affected.*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But as soon as i send sighup signal to mosquitto process to reload
>>>>>> configuration files, existing connections hangs up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Below are the steps i followed (no password file in use):
>>>>>> 1) Start a broker on default port 1883.
>>>>>> 2) Subscribe on the broker with any topic (mosquitto_sub -h localhost
>>>>>> -p 1883 -t abc -i user1)
>>>>>> 3) Send reload (SIGHUP) signal to mosquitto process (kill -1
>>>>>> mosquittoProcessId)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Result:
>>>>>> As soon as i send the signal, the client subscribed in step 2 hangs
>>>>>> up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Same is the case when i configure password file to authenticate
>>>>>> clients.I have tested on versions 1.1.3 and 1.1.1 .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please let me know how to avoid this? I want to add and remove
>>>>>> passwords in password file dynamically and don't want existing connections
>>>>>> to get affected due to reload.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With Regards,
>>>>>> Saurabh Patil.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> With Regards,
>>> Saurabh Patil.
>>>
>>
>>
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With Regards,
Saurabh Patil.

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