<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:20 PM, David Jeske <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidj@gmail.com">davidj@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div><div>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..</div></div></div></blockquote>
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<br></div><div>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)</div><div><br></div><div>The man-page says upstart uses inotify, so I figured it wouldn't see my edits without my manual reload. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>copying the "regular file" into /etc/init instead of using the symlink made my problem go away.</div><div><br></div><div>Is there some reason that symlinking into there is an intentionally unsupported behavior? </div>
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