[HECnet] PyDECnet setup

[Paul Koning]

> On Nov 17, 2021, at 2:16 PM, Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
> 
>> Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
>> A "reload my config" operation could be done as a sequence of "shutdown then restart", breaking all connections 
> 
>  That's what I would expect.  Actually I would be happy with something like
> 
> 	Shutdown all the current connections and processes
> 	Create a new instance of myself with the exact same command line
> 	Exit this instance
> 
> Bob

If your PyDECnet is run from Unix startup machinery, typically having it exit would get it restarted shortly after.  Hm, so "set exec state off" would do this (and would not leave the host off for long -- that's rather unintuitive).

	aul