On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 01:22:01AM +0500, Adam P. Harris wrote: > "Christian" == Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Steve Greenland wrote: > >> On another note, what about things like cron, which don't *need* > >> reload -- it tracks its conffiles, and reads them whenever they > >> change. Should it just implement reload and force-reload as no-ops? > > > Yes, I think this would be best. (Some admins might not know this > > and try to run /etc/init.d/cron reload, so it's best if it simply > > does nothing.) > > Tut tut! What you really mean must be: does nothing but exits with a > non-zero status. Or else we need to reword PW#5-5.
Is a non-zero status useful? After all, cron WILL reload the configuration, even though that isn't caused by the script. A reload will occur, which is success. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
