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

[David Rosenstrauch]

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