Rene Ladan wrote: > 2006/9/25, Erwin Van de Velde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Dear all, >> >> Almost every port containing a service stops the service before >> updating but >> does not restart it afterwards. I was wondering how difficult it can >> be to >> restart the updated service after installing the files? In my opinion, it >> would be less error-prone than hoping for the administrator to remember >> restarting all updated services... >> While this depends on every port maintainer, a general guideline about >> this >> would help and encourage maintainers to do this. >> > Sometimes the configuration changes, making it inadvisable to > automatically restart the service. But automatic restarting should be > possible/desirable (IMO) if the configuration remains the same.
Well each server/service would need a program to check the syntax of the current config file to ensure that it will work. Otherwise, imho, you could only try and error which is not a clean solution. -- Armin Pirkovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
