This one time, at band camp, Peter Eisentraut said: > You wrote: > > My undertanding of the proper action for reload is to close open file > > descriptors, reread configuration files, and reopen file descriptors. > > clamd only closes and reopens it's log file on HUP, so it seemed to > > me that it failed the test for 'supports reload'. > > Indeed. > > > If you really > > wanted to reread the configuration, you would need to stop and then > > start clamd, hence the choice of force-reload being the same as > > restart. > > Correct. > > > When I was setting this up, it seemed to me to be a useful shorthand > > to let 'reload' reopen the log file (so that things like logrotate > > would have a useful target). If that is wrong, I can change it. > > That seems like a useful functionality but I think it is wrong to > overload the "reload" action with it. In the least, it will confuse > people. Using a different name for the init script action would be > better.
Fair enough. I have removed the reload function from the init scripts for now, and used a kill -HUP in the logrotate files. I will give it some thought, and probably reimplement later with another name. Thanks again, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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