Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

On 04/13/2010 03:22 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:

Guys,

One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting and stopping processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For example, all suse did was to create links to the files in /etc/rc.d/... with a naming convention of rc<init script name>. So, for example, instead of having to type:

/etc/rc.d/postfix

the shortcut was simply

rcpostfix

The way I usually handle this is to create an executable shell script in my ~/bin directory (which is on my path) and in /root/bin called "service". It looks like so: #!/bin/bash /etc/rc.d/$* Then I can use RedHat-like syntax to start and stop services: $ sudo service httpd restart HTH, DR