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[Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

Our position for as long as I can remember is that services aren't
restarted automatically. Cast used to do this for a short period of
time, but there were many complaints, so it was removed. This is for
stability. If the program is running, restarting it may very well break
things. By having cast restart things behind your back you may have your
mail server go down without even knowing.

On Thu, 2005-18-08 at 09:04 -0700, David Brown wrote:
> I mentioned the patches we do to the udev spell to linux-hotplug-devel
> and he mentioned some things of importance. I mentioned why the patch
> was needed in several parts...
> This is what he said about removing the killall udevd call that we
> patch out of the makefile.
> 
> <snip>
> > 1) no package to start or stop services in the process of installing
> > the package... hence the removal of the killall udevd && udevd
> > --daemon call
> 
> So you install a new version of udev and don't kill the old udevd
> program?  That's not good at all.  Remember, if you set DEST_DIR, that
> doesn't get called.  That is there to allow you to build and not mess
> with any running services (as is needed on rpm and deb build machines.)
> </snip>
> 
> I was wondering what our official position is on starting and stopping
> critical services on spell upgrades...
> 
> - David Brown
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