Hello, (for some unknown reason I'm not getting any emails from this mailing list even though I'm subscribed, please keep me in CC if you reply thanks!) The NEWS entry for BIRD 2.0.5 mentions the graceful restart command: https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/blob/master/NEWS :> Version 2.0.5 (2019-08-01) [...]
o Graceful restart command
but I didn't see it in the "?" output so I assumed it does not exist: birdc BIRD 2.0.6 ready. bird> ? quit Quit the client exit Exit the client help Description of the help system show ... Show status information dump ... Dump debugging information eval <expr> Evaluate an expression echo ... Control echoing of log messages disable (<protocol> | "<pattern>" | all) [message] Disable protocol enable (<protocol> | "<pattern>" | all) [message] Enable protocol restart (<protocol> | "<pattern>" | all) [message] Restart protocol reload <protocol> | "<pattern>" | all Reload protocol debug ... Control protocol debugging via BIRD logs mrtdump ... Control protocol debugging via MRTdump files restrict Restrict current CLI session to safe commands configure ... Reload configuration down Shut the daemon down By using "g<tab>", auto-completion revealed the existence of the command and it works as intended. bird> graceful restart Graceful restart requested Connection closed by server Would be great to add it to the interactive help output so more people can find out about it by using "?". thanks! Christoph