RE: Reducing downtime on system critical services
> > The only problem with this approach is in cases where the running
> > program makes use of the file you want to change. In that case,
> > you may screw things up by swapping a configuration file out from
> > underneath the program if it's still running.
>
> Yeah, and those programs should special case themselves (and
> policy should allow it).
>
Agreed.
> I think those types are rare and few between though (usually if the
> program monitors the config file state actively, the changes
> should not be so that it would cause problems). Arguably, such programs
> are broken to start with. I don't think I would want anything that
> immeiately recognized my config file changes without telling it to
> (with a simple SIGHUP, like inetd and such do).
>
Agreed.
Does anyone want to put together a policy change proposal?
-Brent
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