I apologize if this is the wrong list for posting this response, this
message was forwarded to me, for some reason I didn't get it.
Regarding starting and stopping relays without restarting the server, this
can be done, though there is a big caveat.
The server re-checks the relay configuration file whenever it is told to
re-read its preferences. The caveat is that there is no way on WinNT / 2000
to get the server to do this (currently, until 3.0 comes out!).
On UNIX platforms, the server re-reads its preferences when it gets a SIGHUP
signal, much like Apache. On Mac OS X Server, QuickTime Streaming Server
admin can tell the server to reread its preferences.
It would be extremely simple to write a module that tells the server to
reread its preferences in response to some event (or periodically). There is
1 QTSS API call you need to make from the module, this is all covered in the
QTSS API documentation.
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Denis Serenyi
QuickTime Streaming Server Engineering
>> We have Darwin 2.0.1 running on NT 4.0 server. We would like to be able to
>> add and remove live streams from the streaming server without having it to
>> restart and re-read the streamingrelay.cfg file as the following page
>> defines:
>> http://www.apple.com/quicktime/authoring/qtss/pgs/qt08a.htm
>>
>>
>> From a high-level perspective, would this be possible via a server-module or
>> possibly a code change to the server. (and yes, I'm aware of what is
>> involved with the latter =) Therefore it'd be great if this could be done
>> in a module).
>>
>> Restarting of the server is very undesirable.
