[Spread-users] Newbie plea for clarification.

[Ryan Caudy]

Nope.  You'd have to stop the daemons and restart them with the new 
configuration file.

--Ryan

> One more question please.
> 
> It is possible for a daemon on any of the configured machines (as
> specified in the 'Spread_Segment') to join at any time, but is there
> any sense of being able to do this at run time?  That is, can a new
> machine (not mentioned in the config file )be added to a segment or a
> new segment added to the mix without stopping all daemons, rewriting
> all config files and restarting all daemons?
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> Gary Herron
> 
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Ryan W. Caudy
Center for Networking and Distributed Systems
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University