<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:37 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 class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">n Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Scott James Remnant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott@netsplit.com" target="_blank">scott@netsplit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Yup, and they're all wrong. Some of them even START apache when it wasn't already running, and that's clearly wrong.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Which is why you can do it, as I said in my original e-mail:</div><div><br></div><div> initctl stop myprog && initctl start myprog</div><div><br></div><div> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div>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?</div>
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</blockquote></div><div><br></div>The service(8) wrapper in Ubuntu already provides this for (I think) force-restart<br><br clear="all"><div>Scott</div>-- <br><div>Have you ever, ever felt like this?</div><div>Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?</div>
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