diff -Nur e-smith-lib-2.6.0.old/root/etc/e-smith/events/actions/adjust-services e-smith-lib-2.6.0/root/etc/e-smith/events/actions/adjust-services
--- e-smith-lib-2.6.0.old/root/etc/e-smith/events/actions/adjust-services	2021-01-01 17:54:05.634000000 -0500
+++ e-smith-lib-2.6.0/root/etc/e-smith/events/actions/adjust-services	2021-01-01 18:00:37.726000000 -0500
@@ -129,10 +129,10 @@
     else
     {
         my $enabled = ($s->prop('status') || 'disabled') eq 'enabled';
-        # stop the service if it is now disabled
-        unshift(@actions,'stop') unless  $enabled;
-        # bring the service up if it is enabled (and we're not stopping it or running it once)
-        push(@actions,'start') if ($enabled && !grep { /^(down|stop|d|once|o|start|restart|reload-or-restart)$/ } @actions) ;
+        # bring the service up if it is enabled (and we're not stopping it or running it once, or using signal able to start it)
+        unshift(@actions,'start') if ($enabled && !grep { /^(down|stop|d|once|o|start|restart|reload-or-restart)$/ } @actions) ;
+	# stop the service if it is disabled
+	@actions = ('stop') unless  $enabled;
 	foreach (@actions)
 	{
 	    warn "adjusting non-supervised $service ($_)\n";
diff -Nur e-smith-lib-2.6.0.old/root/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/esmith/util.pm e-smith-lib-2.6.0/root/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/esmith/util.pm
--- e-smith-lib-2.6.0.old/root/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/esmith/util.pm	2021-01-01 17:54:05.636000000 -0500
+++ e-smith-lib-2.6.0/root/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/esmith/util.pm	2021-01-01 18:14:35.366000000 -0500
@@ -1119,7 +1119,7 @@
         die "serviceControl: ACTION must be specified";
     }
 
-    if ( $serviceAction =~ /^(start|stop|restart|reload|graceful|adjust|svdisable|reload-or-restart|try-restart|try-reload-or-restart|enable -now|sigterm|sighup|sigusr1|sigusr2)$/ )
+    if ( $serviceAction =~ /^(start|stop|restart|reload|graceful|adjust|svdisable|reload-or-restart|try-restart|reload-or-try-restart|enable -now|enable|disable|sig[A-Za-z12]+)$/ )
     {
         my ($startScript) = glob("/etc/rc.d/rc7.d/S*$serviceName") ||'' ;
         my ($systemdScript) = "/usr/lib/systemd/system/$serviceName.service" ||'';
@@ -1133,9 +1133,15 @@
 
         if (-e $systemdScript and ! -e $startScript){
 	    # systemd is not aware of adjust, sigusr1, sigusr2, sigterm, sighup
-	    $serviceAction = ( $serviceAction =~/^(adjust|graceful|sighup|sigusr1|sigusr2)$/ ) ? "reload" : $serviceAction; 
-            $serviceAction = ( $serviceAction eq "sigterm" ) ? "restart" : $serviceAction;
-            if ($serviceAction =~/^(start|stop|restart|reload|reload-or-restart|try-restart|try-reload-or-restart|enable -now)$/) {
+	    $serviceAction = ( $serviceAction =~/^(adjust|graceful|sighup|sigusr1|sigusr2)$/ ) ? "reload-or-restart" : $serviceAction; 
+           $serviceAction = ( $serviceAction eq "sigterm" ) ? "restart" : $serviceAction;
+	    if ($serviceAction =~/^(sig[A-Za-z12]+)$/) {
+		$serviceAction=uc($serviceAction);
+		system('/usr/bin/systemctl',"kill","--signal=$serviceAction","$serviceName.service") == '0'
+                ||    warn "serviceControl: Couldn't " .
+                "system( /usr/bin/systemctl kill --signal=$serviceAction $serviceName.service): $!\n";
+            }
+	    elsif ($serviceAction =~/^(start|stop|restart|reload|reload-or-restart|try-restart|reload-or-try-restart|enable -now|enable|disable)$/) {
                 system('/usr/bin/systemctl',"$serviceAction","$serviceName.service") == '0'
                 ||    warn "serviceControl: Couldn't " .
                 "system( /usr/bin/systemctl $serviceAction $serviceName.service): $!\n";
@@ -1148,7 +1153,7 @@
         elsif (-e $startScript) {
             my  $background = $params{'BACKGROUND'} || 'false';
 
-            die "serviceControl: Unknown serviceAction $serviceAction" if ($serviceAction =~/^(reload-or-restart|try-restart|try-reload-or-restart|enable -now)$/);
+            die "serviceControl: Unknown serviceAction $serviceAction" if ($serviceAction =~/^(reload-or-restart|try-restart|reload-or-try-restart|enable -now|enable|disable)$/);
             if ( $background eq 'true' )
             {
             backgroundCommand( 0, $startScript, $serviceAction );