conf-change reload issue, ui suggestions...

[Evan Huus]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:34 PM, David Jeske <davidj at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:20 PM, David Jeske <davidj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 1) I'm having trouble where I edit my /etc/init/myprog.conf file, initctl
>> reload-config, then initctl restart myprog, and my config changes are
>> obviously not being used..
>>
>
> shortly after sending this, I realized what might be related... I'm
> sym-linking from my /etc/init/willow-smtpd.conf ->
> /home/willow/.....(actual file under source control)
>
> The man-page says upstart uses inotify, so I figured it wouldn't see my
> edits without my manual reload.
>
> However, even with my manual reload it didn't see my changes.. like it's
> checking the mod-date (in this case of the symlink) and being
> too-smart-for-its-own-good and not reloading the file.
>
> copying the "regular file" into /etc/init instead of using the symlink
> made my problem go away.
>
> Is there some reason that symlinking into there is an intentionally
> unsupported behavior?
>

Yes, symlinks are intentionally unsupported. See [1]. If they live on the
same filesystem, you can still use a hardlink for testing.

Cheers,
Evan

[1]
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#symbolic-links-don-t-work-in-etc-init
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