[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) wrote on 15.01.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> "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. I interpret PW#5-5 to mean it must exit with a zero return code. [force-]reload means that the program must be using the new configs; well, it will. MfG Kai
