diff --git a/OpenIPMI.spec b/OpenIPMI.spec
index de7dc9a..e22be8a 100644
--- a/OpenIPMI.spec
+++ b/OpenIPMI.spec
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Summary: IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) library and tools
 Name: OpenIPMI
 Version: 2.0.16
-Release: 11%{?dist}
+Release: 12%{?dist}
 License: LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+ or BSD
 Group: System Environment/Base
 URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openipmi/
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_datadir}/applications/fedora-openipmigui.desktop
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Mar 18 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane@redhat.com> - 2.0.16-12
+- implemented mandatory 'force-reload' command in ipmi service
+
 * Thu Mar 11 2010 Jan Safranek <jsafrane@redhat.com> - 2.0.16-11
 - rebuild against new gdbm
 
diff --git a/openipmi.initscript b/openipmi.initscript
index 3eda3f8..c847fa1 100644
--- a/openipmi.initscript
+++ b/openipmi.initscript
@@ -542,11 +542,12 @@ status_powercontrol()
 #############################################################################
 usage ()
 {
-	echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|try-restart" 1>&2
+	echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status" 1>&2
+	echo $"          restart|condrestart|try-restart|reload|force-reload" 1>&2
 	echo $"          start-watchdog|stop-watchdog|status-watchdog" 1>&2
 	echo $"          start-powercontrol|stop-powercontrol|status-powercontrol" 1>&2
 	echo $"          stop-all|status-all}" 1>&2
-	RETVAL=1
+	RETVAL=2
 }
 
 condrestart ()
@@ -561,6 +562,7 @@ case "$1" in
 	start) start ;;
 	stop)  stop ;;
 	restart) restart ;;
+	force-reload) reload ;;
 	reload) reload ;;
 	status)	status ;;
 	status-all) status_all ;;