plot command should reload config after sleeping (with alternate request)

I would like plotman plot to be run as a background job using nohup (or in my specific case, as the docker entrypoint command). As a result, I want to be able to make changes to the plotman config without having to restart the background job.

I see 2 ways to do this:

• Plotman re-reads the config after sleeping. This is probably best for most users so they don’t need to know as much, but might require significant changes.
• Add a parameter like plotman plot -q or plotman plot -n 5. -q in this case would run the plotting check and quit. -n 5 would run it 5 times (with the specified sleep in between) and then quit. In either scenario, I would set the docker entrypoint to be a loop with my own sleep timer.

otherwise, fantastic project and thank you!

[vidschofelix]

if you are not running inside docker it should work that way. Plotman is stateless and doesnt remain on anything like a database or something in ram… it just collects what it needs, so you can safely restart plotman.

[vidschofelix]

I’m running plotman in a container as well, if your entry point eventually goes to plotman plot you can very easily just do the following

Nice work! I solved it by making plot and archive configurable and let a loop run in entrypoint that starts plotman $command every 10 seconds if it isnt running. this way you can let the container do its thing, change config and reload config by simply docker-compose exec plotman bash -c "killall plotman". I should throw this into github aswell… Because with this its possible to use the plotman archiver under windows ^^