systemctl reload guard, guard reload or SIGHUP reads the configuration again: a watch keeps its bounties and counts under the same name and takes its new settings at once; its source starts again only if it changed; watches gone stop, new ones start; a file with a mistake is refused. The Housecarl connection, state, socket and log wait for a restart, and guard reload says so. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>