bug#26685: certbot service

[Clément Lassieur]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:24:47AM +0200, Clément Lassieur wrote:
>> Also I think some services have to be reloaded/restarted after their
>> certificates are upgraded.  That could be done via a mcron post-hook,
>> but I'm not sure how to pass the list of services that have to be
>> restarted.  WDYT?
>
> I don't have the answer either, but this is a prime use case for
> implementing `nginx reload` in the nginx-service. Otherwise, nginx will
> have to be killed in order to deploy the new certificate.

But this is not just about nginx right?  (Otherwise 'nginx -s reload'
would do the job, I think.)  It is about every service that has its
certificates renewed by certbot.  Don't we need a generic way to reload
services, like 'herd reload service'?  I will have a look at how we
could implement this.