<div class="gmail_quote">n Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Scott James Remnant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott@netsplit.com">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 class="im">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>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>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><div><br></div></div>