How do I restart an application?

[Valentin V. Bartenev]

On Monday 04 March 2019 12:34:52 Александр Поволоцкий wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Do I have any way to restart specific application in unit? Or I have to 
> restart unitd at all? I think some command like 'apachectl graceful' 
> should exist/
> 
[..]

Currently the best way to restart an application is something like this:

  curl -X PUT -d "{\"gen\":\"$RANDOM\"}" \
       --unix-socket /var/run/control.unit.sock \
       /config/applications/<name>/environment

The more straightforward API is planned, for example:

  curl --unix-socket /var/run/control.unit.sock \
       /control/applications/<name>/restart


  wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev