init scripts and the reload target

2006-01-06 Thread sean finney
heyo, a while back, i noticed that there seems to be some rather inconsistent behaviour wrt doing /etc/init.d/foo reload. typically this results in a HUP or something similar sent to the daemon in question, causing it to reload configuration, but in some cases the init script's actions are

Re: init scripts and the reload target

2006-01-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:19:58AM -0500, sean finney wrote: a while back, i noticed that there seems to be some rather inconsistent behaviour wrt doing /etc/init.d/foo reload. typically this results in a HUP or something similar sent to the daemon in question, causing it to reload

Re: init scripts and the reload target

2006-01-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, sean finney wrote: fail with a non-zero value (lsb-compliant packages, i believe), sometimes it will exit normally without performing any action (apache 1.x for example), and in other cases it will start the inactive service (apache 2.x, for example). Please file bugs,