[Openswan dev] init script feature request

David McCullough david_mccullough at mcafee.com
Thu Nov 4 21:04:22 EDT 2010


Jivin Harald Jenny lays it down ...
> Hi all,
> 
> I have had an interesting discussion on a Debian mailing list about a good way
> to make a smooth transition from openswan 2.4 to 2.6 and somehow the issue was
> raised to not allow pluto to start/restart/reload without proper configuration.
> As looking into the current code shows that such a protection is already in
> place for start but it's currently missing from restart, reload/force-reload
> and condrestart/try-restart. What is the lists opinion on this matter? I
> personally think it would be benefical for the userbase (for example someone
> using the VPN to access the system itself).

Sounds reasonable to me,  at least it would be consistent then :-)

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