Re: Restart services after upgrade

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 08:17:24AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Besides what Aleksej suggested, one could have 'make replace', or
> really in the modern world 'pkg_add -U' know about rc.d scripts and
> do the equivalent of
> 
> /etc/rc.d/foo forcestatus # before upgrade
> if status=running /etc/rc.d/foo forcerestart # after


If you only want to ignore the rc.conf setting, it's better to use
"onerestart" instead of "forcerestart", to not ignore other conditions
that could block a restart (missing conf files, depenencies, etc).


        Geert

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