How to manually reload Metadata for SP

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Tue Oct 2 14:32:25 EDT 2012


On 10/2/12 11:36 AM, "Rainer Hoerbe" <rainer at hoerbe.at> wrote:

>Previous threads on this topic did not enlighten me: If I restart shibd,
>it will not fetch an updated version from the remote metadata URL and
>rely on the backing file instead. Is there a way to tell shibd to reload
>immediately?

It always starts by grabbing a fresh copy. If it didn't, then either the
cache information indicated it hadn't changed, or the remote copy was not
available or invalid.

There is no explicit signal to reload after it's running, that's
time-based. A full config reload via touch will work also.

-- Scott




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