I've committed a patch from Hiram that does that in Karaf 4. Thought it's not released yet
https://github.com/apache/karaf/commit/a47c36b7f00c6b593b7a9b5a018deda4aeca1cc0 2015-11-23 15:52 GMT+01:00 Benson Margulies <ben...@basistech.com>: > Is there a service in Karaf that completely restarts it? > >
