dbus reload

[Arslan S.]

anytime a new dbus conf is installed you need to restart dbus daemon but this way running applications using dbus crash immediately
proper way is to reload dbus configuration instead of restarting it

here is a patch that adds reload function to dbus init script

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--- dbus 2012-07-28 12:01:24.443430507 +0000
+++ dbus.reload 2012-07-28 11:59:25.430093599 +0000
@@ -20,6 +20,22 @@
  rm /var/run/dbus/pid
 }
 
+reload() {
+
+        if [ -e /var/run/dbus/pid ]; then
+                echo -e "\nReloading D-BUS configuration ... \c"
+                if dbus-send --system --type=method_call \
+                      --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus / org.freedesktop.DBus.ReloadConfig 2>/dev/null; then
+                   echo -e "ok!\n"
+                else
+                   echo -e "failed!\n"
+                fi
+        else
+                start
+        fi
+
+}
+
 status() {
  if [ -e /var/run/dbus/pid ]; then
  echo -e "\ndbus is running.\n"
@@ -39,6 +55,8 @@
  ;;
  restart) stop; start
  ;;
- *) echo -e "\n$0 [start|stop|restart|status]\n"
+ reload) reload
+ ;;
+ *) echo -e "\n$0 [start|stop|restart|reload|status]\n"
  ;;
 esac


[Juanito]

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