[aur-general] New file "/etc/rc?"

Kwpolska kwpolska at gmail.com
Tue May 3 19:04:17 CEST 2011


On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 11:56:23AM -0500, Yaro Kasear wrote:
> I'm a tad confused about the purpose of /etc/rc. It says its used for the 
> control of daemons and starting and stopping them. Does this mean its 
> replacing the daemons array or something? And with the starting and stopping 
> of daemons... is this for automation or something.
> 
> The news page doesn't really offer that much explanation about this new file.

1st of, it's /sbin/rc.  2nd of, instead of writing

    /etc/rc.d/nginx start; /etc/rc.d/gpm start

you can now write

    rc start nginx gpm

3rd of, no, DAEMONS array will stay here.

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