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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:27:05AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
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> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, David Brown wrote:
> > On 8/18/05, Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net> wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Yes but like sandalle said this is udev which can't really be
> > restarted by telinit.
> > :\
> > - David Brown
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> Seth's option sounds like it might be a good approach. Both the
> optional restart and converting udev (and devfsd, if needed) to
> simpleinit.
 
Running udevd from a seperate init script instead of devices shouldn't
be a problem. Almost the same goes for devfsd, though that one _has_ to
run in the %DEV runlevel, otherwise bad things can happen as the
configured device naming won't exist until devfsd runs.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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