Reload and force-reload options for network service

Solution Verified - Updated

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • initscripts

Issue

systemctl reload network.service and systemctl force-reload network.service are failing and network service is left in inactive status.

Resolution

The 'reload' and 'force-reload' options are "leftovers" in initscripts by mistake.
These commands will not work for network service at all, and technically they cannot be fixed.

The options are now removed from the network service, so they no longer cause any confusion.

Issue was tracked by This content is not included.Bug 1554690 and is fixed by ERRATA

Diagnostic Steps

Commands are present into /etc/rc.d/init.d/network

# tail -12 /etc/rc.d/init.d/network 
restart|reload|force-reload)
    cd "$CWD"
    $0 stop
    $0 start
    rc=$?
    ;;
*)
    echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|reload|force-reload}"
    exit 2
esac

exit $rc

# systemctl reload network
Job for network.service invalid.
# systemctl force-reload network
Job for network.service invalid.

# systemctl status network
● network.service - LSB: Bring up/down networking
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/network; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2018-03-13 08:46:44 CET; 24h ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 32088 ExecReload=/etc/rc.d/init.d/network reload (code=killed, signal=TERM)
  Process: 829 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Mar 13 08:46:44 fvm-rhel-7-4-215 network[32088]: Stopping network (via systemctl):
Mar 13 08:46:44 fvm-rhel-7-4-215 systemd[1]: Stopped LSB: Bring up/down networking.
Mar 13 08:49:49 fvm-rhel-7-4-215 systemd[1]: Unit network.service cannot be reloaded because it is inactive.
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