At 19:14 -0700 1999-06-21, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
And force-reload still bothers me a bit... Is there someone from Debian who remembers the original rationale for it?
Not all daemons have a way to reload the configuration without killing and restarting the program. force-reload was created to provide a consistent way of reloading a daemon's configuration; for daemons that provide a way to reload configurations without killing/restarting, force-reload should be the same as reload.
-- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer <URL:mailto:jk@espy.org> <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>