Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.6.1 Severity: wishlist After short discussion on debian-devel it is obvious, that the section on policy about the restart and force reload of daemons in init.d scripts could be more verbose. There are two options, one is to document the current behavior (which can be found in the skel script) the other is a change in the behavior, which is less desirable.
I propose the following extension to 10.3.2 (please correct my stupid English). --- The 'restart' method of the init.d script must not fail, if the daemon was not running. This means, it will simply start a new daemon instance, without reporting an error. This behavior is also allowed for 'force-reload' if it is linked to the restart method. Other methods of 'force-reload' (like signalling or null implementation, because of automatic config reload) do not need to start a terminated process. In this case a non null error level should be returned. --- <... most likely we should also define exit levels, like RH does ...> Greetings Bernd -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Kernel Version: Linux calista 2.4.18-xfs #8 Wed May 1 10:30:33 CEST 2002 i686 unknown Versions of the packages debian-policy depends on: ii fileutils 4.1-10 GNU file management utilities -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
