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Jacques Normand wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:26:46PM -0600, Narayan Desai wrote:
>>   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?
> 
> That sounds like dangerous. Some daemons really do not like
> force-reload. Autofs for example will try to unmount everything on a
> force-reload with bad consequences we users are logged in and their
> homes mounted. 

Hmm.. That should be a bug. Atleast according to LSB documentation,
force-reload should be canonical to reload if it's available and restart
if it's not.

http://www.freestandards.org/spec/booksets/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html

I'd err on the side of safe, but in this case there is no safe side. =(

- - S
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