[Asterisk-Users] Re: 911 and lawsuits and redundancy

[Rich Adamson]

> Another concern I have on this front is that it seems like some updates require
> an asterisk restart rather than just issueing a reload command from the *
> console. This that correct, or I am just not running the system correctly? For
> instance it seems like I couldn't get zapata.conf changes to go into effect
> without closing * and starting it again. It also seems like some changes in
> sip.conf don't go into effect either. 

You are exactly correct. I've not attempted to categorize which changes
actually require a start/stop vs reload, but would assume those config
entries that are actually used by modules (where the modules are unloaded
and loaded during stop/start) is part of the issue.