>>>>> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:29:44 +0200, Andreas Schuldei
>>>>> <andreas+linux-...@schuldei.org> said:
> i am in the process to create infrastructure for restarting
> services which configuration files changed in the current
> softupdate run.
> currently i plan to set a flag (in an environment variable like
> RESTART_FOO). since different services have different
> restart/reload/whatnot commands i plan to put the restart/reload
> command INTO the variable like this:
> RESTART_FOO="/etc/init.d/FOO restart"
You may want to use the postinst script of fcopy(8) to write the
variables to a file. This postinst script will only be executed, if
fcopy changed the target file.
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regards Thomas
