[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH]Add -f option to ipactl

Petr Spacek pspacek at redhat.com
Wed Feb 19 20:13:27 UTC 2014


On 19.2.2014 21:10, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 02/19/2014 11:58 AM, Adam Misnyovszki wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I reviewed this old patch:
>>
>> If an error occurs in the start up sequence in ipactl start/restart,
>> all the services are stopped. Using the --force/-f option prevents
>> stopping of services that have successfully started.
>>
>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3509
>
>
> I have not read the code but looked at the patch and bug.
> I do not understand the -force option especially with help string being:
> "If ipactl action fails, do not stop the services that are already running"
> force usually means the reverse: if something did not happen force it to happen.
> I am not sure that --force option is the right name for the option with this
> help.

I have proposed --no-rollback but it didn't fit to habits in IPA:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3509#comment:2

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Petr^2 Spacek




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