Hi On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:30:56AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:18:43AM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > > > > - don't reload if the daemon is down > > > > > > > > Do it start instead then? > > > > > > No, reload should just reload the daemon. If it's down it should do > > > nothing > > > (i.e. it does not make sense to 'reload' a daemon which is not active. > > > > Personally I disagree as you do a reload when you think it is up, and then > > you > > most probably want it to start if it is not. > > You can disagree if you want to, but that's what the LSB standard says [1]
Aha! > reload cause the configuration of the service to be reloaded without > actually stopping and restarting the service > > Actually, IMHO, since ntop has no way to reload its configuration files the > option should be dropped all together from the init.d file. > > We do want to be LSB compliant, don't we? We probably want to be compliant, yes. :) I stand corrected... :) Regards, // Ola > Regards > > Javier > > [1] > http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html -- --- Ola Lundqvist systemkonsult --- M Sc in IT Engineering ---- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://www.opal.dhs.org Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
