Package: prometheus Version: 0.16.1-0 Severity: normal Tags: patch hi! (sort of related to #814802) it'd be nice to have config reload in the sysv init script too, e.g. something like the following:
diff --git a/debian/init b/debian/init index 4efd831..c05c108 100755 --- a/debian/init +++ b/debian/init @@ -68,3 +68,17 @@ do_stop_cmd() $HELPER $HELPER_ARGS --running || return 0 return 2 } + +do_reload() +{ + log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC configuration files" "$NAME" + $HELPER $HELPER_ARGS --running || return 1 + helper_pid=$(cat $PIDFILE) + if [ -z "$helper_pid" ]; then + log_failure_msg "Unable to find PID" + return 1 + fi + start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet \ + --ppid "$helper_pid" --exec "$DAEMON" + log_end_msg $? +} what do you think?