Restarting daemons after portupgrade/portmanager

[Axel]

Thanks for your reply!

I want to make the upgrade process as easy as possible, so I guess that 
I'll set up automated restart of daemons (unless you think it's a bad idea).

Is it okay to send a restart signal using AFTERINSTALL, or should the 
restart wait until after portmanager has updated all dependencies etc (= 
make a shell script)?

Axel

Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Axel wrote:
>   
>> Hello! I have a question concerning port upgrades.
>>
>> mysql51-server stops automatically during upgrade (using portupgrade or 
>> portmanager), and is properly started again based on a AFTERINSTALL 
>> setting in pktools.conf.
>>
>> So far, so good. But what about the other daemons that still seem to run 
>> after upgrade (Apache, Courier IMAP etc)? Are the new version running 
>> fine after the upgrade, or should I set AFTERINSTALL to do a restart of 
>> these daemons, to make sure they run the upgraded version?
>>     
>
> No -- the sample AFTERINSTALL stuff in pkgtools.conf will run any RC
> scripts the package installs to try and start those services.  This will
> have no effect if:
>
>    * The daemon is already running
>
>    * There's no foo_enable="yes" setting in /etc/rc.conf or equivalent.
>
> So daemons like mysql or slapd that get shutdown during the process of
> updating the port will be restarted, but daemons like apache or snmpd
> that don't get shutdown will still be running the old version and you'll
> have to restart them manually, as you will have to configure and start
> anything newly installed.  
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
>
>