Restarting services

Erwin Van de Velde erwin.vandevelde at gmail.com
Mon Sep 25 02:49:26 PDT 2006


> Well each server/service would need a program to check the syntax of the
> current config file to ensure that it will work.
> Otherwise, imho, you could only try and error which is not a clean
> solution.

You could also warn when big configuration changes happen and not restart the 
service in those cases. However, 99% of the updates does not change the 
configuration file format that much...

Best regards,
Erwin


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