On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:58:39 +0100 Tom Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 08:00 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> >
> > stop If the service is to be started as specified by
> > rc.conf(5), stop the service. This should check that
> > the
> > service is running and complain if it is not. If
> > forcestop is given, ignore the rc.conf(5) check and
> > attempt to stop.
> >
> Why should it complain?
Because somebody quoted it out of context to justify a completely
bogus assumption about what was and wasn't a bug.
The bug in question is that the man page should note that
force(start|stop|restart) should ignore any precmd problems as well as
the setting in rc.conf, as that is what the tools provided by rc.subr
do.
<mike
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