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[Chris Brien <cbrien AT sourcemage.org>]

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On Monday 14 April 2003 9:52 pm, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I believe sorcery now tries to restart the service if there's a init/
> entry. This must be stopped, or done conditionally. Oftentimes services
> modify, extend, or adjust meaning of configuration options, or some
> in/external modules may stop loading as a result of the rebuild. Sorcery
> would stop the service, and then it would never start again. For
> situations where service can check its config (like `httpd -t' for
> Apache 2 or `slapd -t' for OpenLDAP) this check must be performed
> *before stopping the service*. For other services, nothing must be done.
> Existing daemons must continue running until the administrator decides
> to recycle them.
> I'm quite sure that the feature in its current form must be disabled.
>
> Sergey.

Well I thought about autorestarting daemons when I implemented the 
auto-init.d 
installation, and had the same concerns as you have brought up. It would not 
be too good if, say, it decided to run "/etc/init.d/mount.sh stop" or 
"/etc/init.d/reboot.sh" just because it was installing the init scripts. :o)

So I just decided that it would be better not to. The sysadmin can start and 
stop daemons when he wants; the newbie can reboot to have things started. 
Having to specify whether a service can be autostopped/started would be more 
complex. Doable, but I decided against it at the time. KISS.

The only daemon which currently gets autorestarted is xinetd, when a service 
which uses it is installed/uninstalled. This is separate from the init.d 
handling.

Chris
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