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

[Dmitri Pal]

On 02/19/2014 03:13 PM, Petr Spacek wrote:
> 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
>
then it should be -fs/--force-start

or something of this kind.

-- 
Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager for IdM portfolio
Red Hat Inc.


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