Re: rc

["Dimitry Andric" <dim@xs4all.nl>]

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On 2000-08-08 at 14:54 Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

>This looks good. Debian has an even finer distinction:
>
>   reload
>          cause the configuration of the service to be reloaded
> without
>          actually stopping and restarting the service,
>
>   force-reload
>          cause the configuration to be reloaded if the service
> supports
>          this, otherwise restart the service.
>
>However, we can always indentify your "reload" with Debian's
>"force-reload" and ignore this difference.

I think this is a very important distinction. In most cases, it is
overkill (no pun intended) to simply kill a service, and then restart
it, to let it reload its configuration. Current users' sessions might
be terminated unexpectedly, for example, or other overhead might be
incurred. A good example of this is the Squid proxy cache, where
fully stopping and restarting is very expensive (memory caches need
to be built up again, etc).

Ideally, every daemon/service should have such "reload config"
functionality; nowadays, most of them have it anyway.

Cheers,
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