On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 07:48:23AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 02:52:35PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > > I am almost new to portmaster, so I got a question - is there any > > possibility to restart installed services as in portupgrade with defined > > BEFOREBUILD / BEFOREDEINSTALL / AFTERINSTALL? Or is there any future plan > > to do so? It is annoying if I end up with some dead services after upgrade > > just because I forgot to manualy do /usr/local/etc/rc.d/some_daemon restart > > This is more a complaint about the existing ports infrastructure, as > IMHO, it's something that should be handled there and not necessarily by > "third-party" port management utilities. > > Some existing ports (such as smartmontools, i.e. smartd) do this, while > others (such as postfix) do not.
There is an @stopdaemon facility which can be used in the plist. In fact, it might be a smart idea to remove the way smartmontools does it and replace it with @stopdaemon for consistency sake. > There are pros and cons to what you want. I myself have never managed > to conclude if the pros outweigh the cons -- or vice-versa -- but I have > thought about it before. Personally, I do not want anything stopping or starting services on it's own. That is something that I, as an administrator, should be handling. Of course others are entitled to disagree. :) With that said, it may be interesting to have a knob which allows for services to be started right away if desired by the user, and if the port supports such a situation (ie: it does not require any configuration after the install). The default for the user-defined knob would be off, for at least POLA reasons. -- WXS _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
