Puppet

This seems like an incredibly arrogant position. What if I don’t want it to restart, and rather reload instead? That’s what I hoped to use it for. But I guess that it’s your way or the highway.

I have several services that I would prefer to reload the configuration on after a change rather than having the service restart, which for a short moment stops the service, interrupting the service that it provides.

But I guess that I’ll have to patch Puppet and maintain the patch myself.

In my opinion init’s argumentation makes sense. For example, maybe you rather like to gracefully restart apache. On the other hand I think the current solution is correct, as restart means in my opinion restart and not reload. So I would appreciate a patch which will enable the provider for more felixibility and if the redhat-service-provider would respect the reload parameter it wouldn’t change the current behaviour, it would simply extend it and make it working according to the documentation. Otherwise this should be mentioned in the documentation.

So I vote for reopening.

In my opinion init’s argumentation makes sense.

Thanks.

For example, maybe you rather like to gracefully restart apache.

Exactly.

On the other hand I think the current solution is correct, as restart means in my opinion restart and not reload. So I would appreciate a patch which will enable the provider for more felixibility and if the redhat-service-provider would respect the reload parameter it wouldn’t change the current behaviour, it would simply extend it and make it working according to the documentation.

With this solution, there would need to be some mechanism to make sure that sending events to a service would trigger a reload instead of a restart. With my proposed fix, restart would actually always be a reload, which of course would be a problem if you sometimes would want a restart and sometimes would want a reload.

And then, reload isn’t always reload. The Apache init.d script has both reload and graceful. How would one differ between those?

Might I suggest updating the ticket name and description as it is currently inaccurate. My apologies for rejecting this one, I must have been on a rampage (I only meant to provide relevant information :>)