Andre Majorel writes: > I'm working on a program to make changes to a daemon's > configuration file. The man page helpfully warns against doing > that without immediately restarting it. > > Do you think the following would work on any Debian system, > regardless of its current run level and choice of init system ? > > 1. run invoke-rc.d daemon-package stop > 2. update config file > 3. run invoke-rc.d daemon-package start
That might behave different than expected when current state of the daemon and the boot configuration differ: for example the sequence above will start the daemon if it was not running before but is configured to start at boot; or it will stop the daemon if it was manually started but is not configured to start automatically at boot. systemctl has a `try-restart` option that might be helpful in such cases, but this is optional for LSB init scripts (yay...). `reload` would also work if supported. Ansgar
