[systemd-devel] Restarting nmb.service from within a program

[Reindl Harald]

Am 03.11.2015 um 20:44 schrieb Paul D. DeRocco:
> I have a Yocto embedded system running a simple Samba 4 server, using
> systemd. I'm relying on the system hostname being the default netbios
> name, and I need to be able to change the hostname, and therefore the
> netbios name, from within my main application. I write the new hostname to
> /etc/hostname, and also call sethostname(), but in order for the change to
> take effect, the nmbd daemon (that is, nmb.service) needs to be restarted.
>
> Since systemd is managing this service, it seems I should be accomplishing
> this by telling systemd to restart the service. Is there a documented way
> to do this from within a program? There must be some way, since systemctl
> does it

and why don't you just call systemctl?

that's even from php scripts with exec() or passthru() a no brainer

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