Re: Possible OS suggestion: make service status smarter about process runtime

Dan Mahoney <freebsd@gushi.org> writes:

> Hey all,
>
> There's no mailing list for "rc" commands so I'm putting this in generic questions.
>
> We've recently done some pkg upgrades and would like to restart the various services.
>
> It occurs to me that since the rc subsystem knows the command
> involved, (say, /usr/local/sbin/httpd), and already looks at the
> process table and the pid file to figure out if it's running, It's
> also possible to extend the output of service foo status to print how
> long a service has been running.
>
> Further, this could be extended such that there was a way of telling,
> post pkg upgrade or post freebsd-update install, which services were
> in need of a restart.  (I.e. which files had mtimes newer than their
> runtimes).
>
> Thoughts on this?  Is it worth a feature request?

You might want to look into the checkrestart port/package to tell you
which services need to be restarted.

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