On 13 May 2016 at 00:04, Terry Burton <t...@terryburton.co.uk> wrote: > I have a process (ISC DHCP) that has no reload or soft restart > mechanism. The only way to "reload" it is a stop and start. > > I understand systemd's design choice of maintaining a clear > distinction between reload and restart based on whether the service is > interrupted or not, so it's clear that I should use restart. > > However, in the event that the user invokes "restart" I would like to > validate the config file before taking the Stop action to avoid loss > of service (as was the case for the reload action of my previous init > scripts.) > > We do not however have ExecStopPre and there does not appear to be a > way to interrupt a Stop action based on the result of ExecStop so I'm > not sure where that leaves me? Does anyone have a useful recipe that > accomplishes this? > > Perhaps such a config check is considered one of those things that > lives in a support script or user's best practises outside of the init > system... That seems a shame though.
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