[arch-general] Tool to stop and start services? (Don't Panic)

[Scott]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 09:09:50AM -0700, Thayer Williams wrote:
> >
> >
> > I can't recall any such tool offhand, though the discussion certainly
> >  has come up before.  What's wrong with /etc/rc.d/service stop and
> >  /etc/rc.d/service start?
> 
> 
> # start, stop, restart, reload - simple daemon management
> # usage: start <daemon-name>
> start()
> {

(The rest snipped for brevity).

I just wanted to thank you for that one, I can't believe I'd never
thought of doing it for any of my installs (including BSD and the RH
based ones that use /etc/init.d).  With slight modification, it will
work for anything . 
Thanks again.


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