Bug#152955: debian-policy: section 10.3.2 in force-reload should be more clear
On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> After short discussion on debian-devel it is obvious, that the section on
> policy about the restart and force reload of daemons in init.d scripts could
I agree with that. We do not define what force-reload does if the service
is not running [and it does indeed support configuration reloading].
> be more verbose. There are two options, one is to document the current
> behavior (which can be found in the skel script) the other is a change in
The current behaviour is not consistent. There are packages doing it either
way. THAT is the real problem.
> the behavior, which is less desirable.
Oh, quite the opposite. It is *desirable* to have force-reload defined as
"force a full configuration reload of the service, if it is running. Fail
otherwise". But the code to do so is more complicated.
> reporting an error. This behavior is also allowed for 'force-reload' if it
> is linked to the restart method. Other methods of 'force-reload' (like
> signalling or null implementation, because of automatic config reload) do
> not need to start a terminated process. In this case a non null error level
> should be returned.
I object to this change. We should choose a method for force-reload, and
have it consistently implemented. We probably should also try to get the
LSB to fix "force-reload" in their standard as well. They have exactly the
same problem:
"force-reload: cause the configuration to be reloaded if the service supports
this, otherwise restart the service" -- LSB 1.3 draft
What should be done if the service supports the reload, but is not running?
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where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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