>>>>> "Sami" == Sami Haahtinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  Sami> Thanks (again) for the bug report, passing it on to upstream.
  Sami> jacques Normand wrote:
  >> The call used to restart a service is wrong
  >> (/etc/init.d/<service> reload).  The policy states that the
  >> support of the reload is optional. And when bcfg2 fails to reload
  >> a service, it does not report it anywhere. Which is why I
  >> consider this bug as important. It could very well lead to a
  >> critical service falsely updated and left in an unsecure
  >> situation.  Using the force-reload (which is mandatory) when
  >> reload fails would be a good fix.

  Sami> I agree here, a simple failback to force-reload would be a
  Sami> simple solution. But on a long term it would be a good idea to
  Sami> catch the errors and report them back to the server and
  Sami> possibly attempt reconfigure later.

Should we change the default to force-reload for debinit? it can be
overridden by using the reload attribute for services. If force-reload
is mandatory, then we should probably use it. Thoughts?

We have an analogous issue with fedora, except force-reload ->
condrestart, so I was thinking about changing it chkconfig to use
condrestart... 
 -nld

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