If its any help, I have just run izonereport on a 4.3.4 system, then modified the file, then reran izonereport and it showed the updated information.
I believe that the behaviour of iRODS has changed over the year with regard to when/which it reads the config files, but my understanding is that every new rodsAgent reads the configuration files on every new process. So currently running connections will still have the old information but anything new gets the updated values.
I am not sure how true this is of the
core.re and similar files however - at one point they were only read at server startup, but I believe that behaviour was changes, although I can't pin point a version, although Alan and team might know.
What scenarios are you looking to cover?
cheers
John
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