[rhn-users] shutdown services when upgrading

[Curtis Doty]

Jim Pelton wrote:

> So I'm trying to develop a good strategy for updating (with up2date) 
> some web servers and several other production level boxes.  My 
> question arose out of the need to update httpd on the web farm.  If I 
> go ahead and update, will the rpm %pre and %post scripts (or whatever 
> does this type of thing) shutdown the httpd service, update and then 
> bring it back up?

To answer your own question, try:

    # rpm -q --scripts httpd

Herer is a way to accomplish what you want:

    # up2date -i httpd && service httpd condrestart

> Also, is there an easy way to go about finding this information, with 
> out just doing a test run on a test machine?  It is important to 
> understand the way these things work if any sort of automation is to 
> be trusted!

Use the source, Luke. :-) Or TFM: 
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/stopping.html

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