Re: Change In Restarting Services (slightly OT)

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>]

On 20100317_202738, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> I haven't been active in Debian for two years back when Lenny was
> still in 'testing' and noticed that for some reason it is no longer
> protocol to restart network services using the 'init.d' scripts. I
> also noticed the same for Ubuntu (which I don't use or could care
> about) and am trying to understand what is the correct way now for
> Debian and what changed? I did a search on Google but didn't turn up
> any results.
> 
> Is it no longer correct to run:
> 
> *CODE*
> /etc/init.d/network restart
> 

I've looked into what is on my Lenny and see '/etc/init.d/networking'
and '/etc/init.d/network-manager', but no '/etc/init.d/network'. Was
there once an '/etc/init.d/network'? I don't remember.

Also, about the reason for the existence of 'invoke-rc.d'?  It appears
from my reading of man invoke-rc.d that this interface is a place
where special processing can be added to Debian packages that need to
manipulate an init script, and that it should be OK for a single
user/self-admin to invoke the scripts directly (using sudo or su, of
course). Am I right in this?

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Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net