Re: PROPOSAL: init file actions (draft 5)
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 04:11:30PM -0400, Jim Knoble wrote:
> På 1999-Jun-24 klokka 12:23:59 -0700 skrivet Daniel Quinlan:
>
> : I don't think it would be a good idea to switch away from the current
> : (Debian) practice in this way. It doesn't really buy you anything
> : except less typing or a slightly different way to handle it.
>
> ... except that it makes more sense, and now's the chance to get it
> right.
>
> Current Red Hat practice, by the way, is to use `reload' as a synonym
> for `restart' in many cases where a soft reload isn't supported.
... we (that means SuSE) do have the same practice.
And the option `status' returns `OK' or `No process'.
I would like to have a more soft reload with an appropriate option
name like `rescan' (short and e.g. used in the manual page of xdm):
Werner
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