GNU bug report logs - #26830
Allow services to implement a 'reload' action

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Message #70 received at 26830 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>,
 Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>,
 26830 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bug#26830] Allow services to implement a 'reload' action
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:52:58 +0300

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Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

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> I wonder if the patch as-is would achieve that though, because in
> general those daemons are run with ‘-c /gnu/store/…-config’, so
> reloading would just reload the same file.

Maybe we could switch to another practice in service definitions:

‘/gnu/store/...-some-program/bin/some-program -c /etc/some-config’

$ ls -l /etc/static
/etc/static -> /gnu/store/...-etc/etc

$ ls -l /etc/some-config
/etc/some-config -> /etc/static/some-config

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