[CentOS] What's the point of 'service mysqld reload'?

Tue Aug 5 07:18:47 UTC 2014
Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>

2014-08-05 10:09 GMT+03:00 Martin Božič <martin at b021c.si>:

> Hi,
>
> I've been looking at /etc/init.d/mysql init script and saw that 'reload'
> spits
> out just 'exit 3' and doesn't actually do anything else.
>
> I'm talking here about stock MySQL on CentOS 6.5.
>
> What's the reason to do this? It seems quite misleading!
>
>
Maybe reload without restart is not supported, see:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/917865/how-do-you-refresh-the-mysql-configuration-file-without-restarting

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Eero