"Olaf van der Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 3/28/06, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 06:15:27PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> > Harder than it looks. There are multiple syslog daemons, how can the >> > package know which one is installed and needs to be restarted? >> >> are there really that many syslog daemons (my count is 5)? why not make >> a list, fire off invoke-rc.d on each of them during upgrade, >> and ignore the return codes? if you really cared i suppose you >> couldtest before calling invoke-rc.d too, but the point is i >> don't think it's a great deal of work to do so. > > That doesn't sound like a clean solution. :) > I doubt udev/syslog are the only packages that encounter this situation.
There are a number of situations where one of a selection of packages can reasonably be installed. mail transport agent imap daemon dns server proxy server logging daemon Presumably, there is a standard way to handle the case of needing to restart a 1-of-N service handler? cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London N1 1LX | +UK 20 7700 2487 www.shadow.org.uk/products/newhand.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
