conf-change reload issue, ui suggestions...

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:37 PM, David Jeske <davidj at gmail.com> wrote:

> n Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Scott James Remnant <scott at netsplit.com>wrote:
>
>> Yup, and they're all wrong. Some of them even START apache when it wasn't
>> already running, and that's clearly wrong.
>>
>
> I can see why lacking a mechanism like upstart-restart is imprecise, and
> why adding that mechanism is clearly a 'good thing'.  I don't, however, see
> anything "wrong" with making common user-operations convenient.
>
> I don't care what it's called, but failing to provide this capability is
> kinda missing the #1 thing some reasonable set of users do (as evidenced by
> the fact that all the other tools are built to do it). We certainly need it
> for our usage.
>
>
Which is why you can do it, as I said in my original e-mail:

  initctl stop myprog && initctl start myprog



> Do you have opposition to something like "initctl fstart"  (i.e.
> flush/force start) that basically stops if started, forces a config reload,
> and then starts?
>
>
The service(8) wrapper in Ubuntu already provides this for (I think)
force-restart

Scott
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