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Re: PW#5-5: Standardized handling of /etc/init.d script options



Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:

>          force-reload if possible do a "reload", otherwise "restart"

Can anybody think of something better than `force-reload' for this
option?

>      All these options have to be provided by all scripts. If an option is
>      not possible (i.e., the daemon does not support reloading) or fails,
>      an appropriate error message has to be written to stderr and a
>      non-zero error level has to be returned.

For programs which can't reload, I assume it would be ok to just let *
handle it?


Guy


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