proposed minimum function of /etc/init.d scripts
I would like to propose that all scripts placed in /etc/init.d should be
required to support at least the four arguments 'start|stop|reload|restart'.
In cases where there is currently no 'restart', it could easily be formed as
the sequence of actions to perform a stop followed by a start. In cases where
there is no 'reload' and the daemon(s) in question can't do on-the-fly
reloading of config files, the 'reload' token would degenerate to an alias for
'restart'.
Bdale
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