Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 15:49:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> To: jilles@stack.nl Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports with daemons on uninstall... Message-ID: <201307141949.r6EJnZPp009319@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20130714191725.GA30708@stack.nl> References: <E1UyObF-0000Rh-P5@clue.co.za>
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In article <20130714191725.GA30708@stack.nl>, jilles@stack.nl writes: >Apart from the annoyance of the restarts, automatic stopping and >starting is probably the best policy for having things "just work". Some >daemons will crash or otherwise stop being useful when their files have >been deleted or replaced, and the new rc.d script might be unable to >stop the old daemon. Strongly agreed -- and it's what other operating systems do, either by policy or by convention. -GAWollman
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