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Date:      Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:18:00 +0200
From:      Greg Byshenk <freebsd@byshenk.net>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@freebsd.org>, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, Norikatsu Shigemura <nork@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [ports/net/isc-dhcp*] Don't stop DHCP related daemons
Message-ID:  <20100915081800.GQ12467@core.byshenk.net>
In-Reply-To: <4C901FD0.5000304@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20100911222902.bb57444a.nork@FreeBSD.org> <20100911173359.68d71af6@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <AANLkTin0D13%2B9JQJ6wVD7_48Es6rvUJtu=rAx6M1xdjx@mail.gmail.com> <4C901FD0.5000304@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:22:24PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:

[...]
 
> I can think of at least one more scenario off the top of my head. You 
> want to run the new version of the service the next time the box is 
> restarted for whatever reason, but the update is not so critical that it 
> justifies restarting the system immediately.

Do 'you' (generic) -really- want to do this? 'This', in this case
being making a change without testing what will happen when the
machine or service is next restarted?  One of the things I've
learned is that things aren't always perfect, and, if I change 
service <X> in some way, then I want to test that .../rc.d/<X>
actually does what I want/expect next time it runs.

As I noted before, if by chance something is wrong, I want to
know -now-, while the server/service is being maintained, not at
some random later date.


I am not coming down on either side of the 'automation' issue, as 
I think that I can see points on both sides; I'm just suggesting
that this argument is not a good one.


-- 
greg byshenk  -  gbyshenk@byshenk.net  -  Leiden, NL



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