On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:49:49PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Please reply to the bug number and not only to me...
>
>
> > Ok, it's not a problem for me. I was thinking so because:
> > 1 - restart and force-reload are in fact the same thing (but now I
> > understand that they mean two different things, and so it's ok to
> > have both of them)
>
> It's not ok, it's mandatory...:-)
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-sysvinit
Ok. Thanks a lot for the link!
> > instead of
> >
> > restart | force-reload)
> >
> > we could have (not tested)
> >
> > restart)
> > start_stop stop
> > sleep 2
> > start_stop start
> > ;;
> > force-reload)
> > invoke-rc.d geneweb restart
> > ;;
>
>
> Hmmmmvery certainly not a good idea to use invoke-rc.d from the init
> script itself....
>
> No other package does this..:)
That's also what I was thinking; and I think that this could be solved
only by restarting geneweb "if and only if" it's already running.
But actually I still haven't written that part of the script.
(I'm not so good at tuning init scripts..)
NB: I think the solution I already posted you is unfortunately only a
workaround,
and not the perfect choice.
> I'm pretty sure that "invoke-rc.d xxxx force-reload" *always* starting
> the program is completely on purpose....
Yes, and reading the link you sent me I think that maybe we should create the
"reload" case in the initscript (by implementing what I wrote few lines
above).
That because as far as I can understand it's the only section which doesn't
attempt to start the service:
[quote]
reload
cause the configuration of the service to be reloaded without
actually stopping and restarting the service
[/quote]
In this way we could
- restart geneweb if already running
or
- do nothing (except a warning message) if geneweb is not running
without (I think) doing something against the debian-policy, and also
against the choices of the administrator of the machine.
What do you think about this?
If you agree I can try to write down that part of the initscript to
definitively solve the problem.
Bye, Vladimir Nicola
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