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author:
- 'Dwayne Bent <dbb.1@liqd.org>'
+- Kim Alvefur
date: '2015-12-23'
section: 1
title: PROSODYCTL
: Restarts the prosody server daemon. Equivalent to running prosodyctl
stop followed by prosodyctl start.
+reload
+: Signals the prosody server daemon to reload configuration and reopen
+ log files.
+
status
: Prints the current execution status of the prosody server daemon.
+Debugging
+---------
+
+prosodyctl can also show some information about the environment,
+dependencies and such to aid in debugging.
+
+about
+: Shows environment, various paths used by Prosody and
+ installed dependencies.
+
+check \[what\]
+: Performs various sanity checks on the configuration, DNS setup and
+ configured TLS certificates. `what` can be one of `config`, `dns`
+ and `certs` to run only that check.
+
Ejabberd Compatibility
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