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

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 09:09 -0700, Thayer Williams wrote:
> On 5/22/08, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Nigel Henry
> >  <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> >  > On my Fedora installs there is a GUI for stopping and starting services, and
> >  > also the option of using chkconfig on the CLI. On my Debian installs, I
> >  > installed sysv-rc-conf, which runs on the CLI, and allows you to stop and
> >  > start services.
> >  >
> >  > Is there anything similar that I could use on my Archlinux install?
> >  >
> >  > Thanks for any help.
> >
> >
> > 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?
> 
> I would have to side with Travis here. In case it's just too much
> hassle to type, you can always add some bash functions to make it even
> simpler.  Here's what I've got in ~/.bashrc (it's based off someone
> else's example from the forums...):
> 
> # start, stop, restart, reload - simple daemon management
> # usage: start <daemon-name>
> start()
> {
>   for arg in $*; do
>     sudo /etc/rc.d/$arg start
>   done
> }
> stop()
> {
>   for arg in $*; do
>     sudo /etc/rc.d/$arg stop
>   done
> }
> restart()
> {
>   for arg in $*; do
>     sudo /etc/rc.d/$arg restart
>   done
> }
> reload() {
>   for arg in $*; do
>     sudo /etc/rc.d/$arg reload
>   done
> }
> 

Someone wrote this a while earlier http://pastebin.com/d50be4205
it also checks whether a service is already running or not.
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