[lsb-discuss] force-reload/restart

[Thorsten Kukuk]

Hi,

currently we define "force-reload" as "cause the configuration to be
reloaded if the service supports this, otherwise restart the service".

And we define "restart" as "stop and restart the service if the
service is already running, otherwise start the service".

The result is: If a service supports SIGHUP and is not running, a
"force-reload" will give you an error. If a service does not support
SIGHUP, a "force-reload" will start the service, if it is not running
before.

So I suggest do change "force-reload" to:
"cause the configuration to be reloaded if the service supports this,
otherwise restart the service if it is running".

   Thorsten

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