# 信号

## Signals

On Unix systems, the NATS server responds to the following signals:

| Signal    | Result                                                       |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `SIGKILL` | Kills the process immediately                                |
| `SIGQUIT` | Kills the process immediately and performs a core dump       |
| `SIGINT`  | Stops the server gracefully                                  |
| `SIGTERM` | Stops the server gracefully                                  |
| `SIGUSR1` | Reopens the log file for log rotation                        |
| `SIGHUP`  | Reloads server configuration file                            |
| `SIGUSR2` | Stops the server after evicting all clients (lame duck mode) |

The `nats-server` binary can be used to send these signals to running NATS servers using the `-sl` flag:

\##Quit the server

```shell
nats-server --signal quit
```

## Stop the server

```shell
nats-server --signal stop
```

## Reopen log file for log rotation

```shell
nats-server --signal reopen
```

## Reload server configuration

```shell
nats-server --signal reload
```

## Lame duck mode server configuration

```shell
nats-server --signal ldm
```

If there are multiple `nats-server` processes running, or if `pgrep` isn't available, you must either specify a PID or the absolute path to a PID file:

```shell
nats-server --signal stop=<pid>
```

```shell
nats-server --signal stop=/path/to/pidfile
```

See the [Windows Service](https://docs.natsclub.cn/cn/yun-xing-yi-ge-nats-fu-wu/introduction/windows_srv) section for information on signaling the NATS server on Windows.