From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 25 09:14:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D27F316A403 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:14:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.c.ladan@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3096E43D5A for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:14:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from r.c.ladan@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1791814wxd for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:14:53 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EmOW45sPcx4vpUDdKbSHSdUkO7ZRXTNSqRjDW1hxKOsmlfRiTfIFhjuAuW3DSRksECcVUV7+xw739TPrGzX8Mzbh0lg38a9I8h7FS0vNXcV/VwSPoIQZEvnVIU4EIyZB+rQtRq7nQV1b4xF4jLw/8OsDupp9GS6XzHNYxiqWGbE= Received: by 10.70.87.9 with SMTP id k9mr6736369wxb; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.124.15 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:14:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:14:52 +0200 From: "Rene Ladan" To: "Erwin Van de Velde" In-Reply-To: <200609251035.15484.erwin.vandevelde@ua.ac.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200609251035.15484.erwin.vandevelde@ua.ac.be> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restarting services X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:14:54 -0000 2006/9/25, Erwin Van de Velde : > Dear all, > > Almost every port containing a service stops the service before updating but > does not restart it afterwards. I was wondering how difficult it can be to > restart the updated service after installing the files? In my opinion, it > would be less error-prone than hoping for the administrator to remember > restarting all updated services... > While this depends on every port maintainer, a general guideline about this > would help and encourage maintainers to do this. > Sometimes the configuration changes, making it inadvisable to automatically restart the service. But automatic restarting should be possible/desirable (IMO) if the configuration remains the same. Regards, Rene -- GPG fingerprint = E738 5471 D185 7013 0EE0 4FC8 3C1D 6F83 12E1 84F6 (subkeys.pgp.net) "It won't fit on the line." -- me, 2001