Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:14:52 +0200 From: "Rene Ladan" <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> To: "Erwin Van de Velde" <erwin.vandevelde@ua.ac.be> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restarting services Message-ID: <e890cae60609250214n4ebc0aeal2055d1d03c6b48cc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200609251035.15484.erwin.vandevelde@ua.ac.be> References: <200609251035.15484.erwin.vandevelde@ua.ac.be>
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2006/9/25, Erwin Van de Velde <erwin.vandevelde@ua.ac.be>: > 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
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