reload is difficult to use with instance jobs

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If I have an instance job (such as ceph-osd), that all read a config file (such as /etc/ceph/ceph.conf) and I want to make them all reload their config (send SIGHUP), I can't just "initctl reload ceph-osd", I need to somehow obtain a list of the running instances, reload them one by one, and handle an edge case where they might have exited between me listing instances & running reload.

I could do an initctl list | mawk ... | ... etc, reconstruct the instance variables from the what's inside the parens, but that just seems too clumsy.

Related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/878322/

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Makes sense to me. The most elegant way would be to have a glob expression available like we have in the job syntax. Done right, '*' should mean "all instances"

initctl reload ceph-osd '*'

or

initctl reload network-interface 'IFACE=eth[012]'

[Loic Dachary (dachary)]

is it still undecided ?