<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/11/2014 09:05 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CAGWsdOgBki9w7Kzc48o91F3GTXeiNmXPCpxO7N7JgFD64NWtVw@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">2014-03-10 15:25 GMT+01:00 Lukas Nykryn <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lnykryn@redhat.com"><lnykryn@redhat.com></a>: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Unfortunately common practice in initscripts is to have reload as an alias for restart (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SysVInitScript">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SysVInitScript</a>). In that case the newly started process will be killed immediately after the reload process ends and its cgroup is destroyed. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Interesting. The Debian/Ubuntu packaging policies are quite contrary in that regard. LSB/SysV init scripts only have the reload option, if the daemon actually supports it. There is a force-reload action though, which is mapped to reload, if the daemon supports reload and to restart, if not. Given that, I wonder if this should be maintained as a Fedora specific patch? </pre> </blockquote> Debian is getting it right in this regard since LSB defines the behavior of reload to be [1] "reload cause the configuration of the service to be reloaded without actually stopping and restarting the service" In anycase systemd should follow LSB in this regard leaving any downstream distribution having to patch their own common practices in initscripts by themselves. JBG 1. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_4.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html">http://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_4.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html</a> </body> </html>