On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 08:48:17 -0500, Phil Barnett wrote: > What I miss in Gentoo is the simple format for services like found in > Redhat and many others, ie: > > service servicename stop/start/restart > > It eliminates needing to know where the service directory is or > including it every time. > > service httpd stop > > is a lot easier than any other incarnation and make any system easier > to admin.
<shellscript> #!/bin/sh /etc/init.d/$1 $2 </shellscript> put that in /usr/sbin or whereever you like, name it "service", give it the right permissions and you will have the functionality you described. i read that before on the list, so it must be somewhere on the archives too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
