[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#527846: Bug#527846: consolekit: does not provide a init.d script (how do I restart the daemon?)

[Francesco Poli]

On Sat, 09 May 2009 00:49:31 +0200 Michael Biebl wrote:

> Francesco Poli (t1000) wrote:
[...]
> > As a consequence, I cannot understand what's the correct strategy
> > to restart the daemon, when I need to (e.g.: because checkrestart
> > suggests to do so, after a package upgrade).
[...]
> console-kit-daemon is a D-Bus activated system service.
> If you want to restart it, simply kill the process and D-Bus will launch it on
> demand. There is no need for a legacy sysv init script.
> 
> It's not recommended to restart console-kit-daemon anyway, as you will lose all
> registered sessions.

Well, but what if a security update on one of the dependencies creates
the *need* to restart the daemon?
This is the first time I encounter a daemon which I should try to never
restart...  :-o
It sounds kinda strange that I am recommended against restarting a
daemon!

> 
> Hope that answers your questions.

It does answer my questions, but it also generates even more
head-scratching!  :-/


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