Bug#60979: What /etc/init.d/xxx restart does?
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 18:43, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> Starting and stopping a service should be idempotent, i.e. further
> attempts should silently succeed.
I don't agree with that, if that is what current policy says (but I
don't think it does).
If I start something that is already started, I want it to tell me -
maybe I was starting the wrong thing; maybe I failed to stop it when I
thought I had stoppped it.
If something is already started, the script should say "xxx is already
running". If it is already stopped, the script should say "xxx is not
running".
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Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
Isle of Wight, UK
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