[systemd-devel] Support for pre-restart check

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Jul 31 01:24:28 PDT 2014


Am 31.07.2014 um 07:03 schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson:
> On 07/31/2014 12:16 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> I think the use case is pretty clear tho'. Config (or general machine
>> state) has transitioned from working to broken in the time since the
>> service was started and while it's really not a nice situation to find
>> yourself in (relying on a running service not crashng!), this at least
>> helps avoid nasty consequences for the most part while you work to fix
>> things.
> 
> The use case administrator want, is fixing their own lazyness and 
> incompetence not having to run the configuration syntax checker by 
> hand after they made changes to the configuration for one of those 
> handful of daemon/service that actually come with those.

strange attitude calling safety "lazyness" and "incompetence"

given that you can throw away a lot of things developed
in the past 10 years to support the user in many different
areas of IT

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