I built my program with mix release and started the app with _build/dev/rel/myapp/bin/myapp daemon…works great. Before doing my restart I edited my .env file with the new value for my key sample. My releases config is:
import Config
config :myapp,
sample: System.fetch_env!("SAMPLE")
If I run echo $SAMPLE I get my value of “HELLO”. Likewise, if I run Application.fetch_env!(:myapp, :sample) I get that, as well as System.fetch_env!("SAMPLE")
I then edit the .env file and change SAMPLE to “WORLD”, then source .env and verify that the change is correct and then restart the app with
_build/dev/rel/myapp/bin/myapp restart …this does not recognize the environment variable change. Not unless I do a full stop and start the daemon again
