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Re: invoke-rc.d & systemd

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On Sun, 07 Aug 2016, Andre Majorel wrote:
> I'm working on a program to make changes to a daemon's
> configuration file. The man page helpfully warns against doing
> that without immediately restarting it.
> 
> Do you think the following would work on any Debian system,
> regardless of its current run level and choice of init system ?
> 
> 1. run invoke-rc.d daemon-package stop
> 2. update config file
> 3. run invoke-rc.d daemon-package start

That works, but it doesn't take into account any socket activation or
other such functionality (which *is* a bug in invoke-rc.d that has not
been fixed yet).  You have to manually account for such uses and
explicitly disable them as well around the config change, at least for
now.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

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invoke-rc.d & systemd Andre Majorel <aym-naibed@teaser.fr> - 2016-08-07 14:50 +0200
  Re: invoke-rc.d & systemd Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-08-07 15:40 +0200
    Re: invoke-rc.d & systemd Andre Majorel <aym-naibed@teaser.fr> - 2016-08-07 16:20 +0200
      Re: invoke-rc.d & systemd Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-08-07 17:00 +0200
      Re: invoke-rc.d & systemd Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-08-08 11:30 +0200
  Re: invoke-rc.d & systemd Ansgar Burchardt <"Ansgar Burchardt"@43-1.org> - 2016-08-07 16:00 +0200
    Re: invoke-rc.d & systemd Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-08-07 17:10 +0200
      Re: invoke-rc.d & systemd Ansgar Burchardt <"Ansgar Burchardt"@43-1.org> - 2016-08-08 10:10 +0200
  Re: invoke-rc.d Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.com> - 2016-08-08 11:00 +0200

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