On 2020-08-15 00:22-0000 Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2020-08-14, tastytea <[email protected]> wrote: > > > rc-service runs the same service scripts that are in /etc/init.d/, > > so it's the same. However the manpage of rc-service(8) mentions that > > “Service scripts could be in different places on different > > systems”, so the most compatible way would be to use rc-service. > > Oddly, the two usages are both within one example. It appears that > the author uses "/etc/init.d/iptables" for the "save" command and > "rc-service iptables" for the "start" command. In some places “rc-service iptables save”¹ is used, in some places “/etc/init.d/iptables save”². I think it was 2 or more authors with different preferences. > Also interesting: the openrc wiki page doesn't mention rc-service at > all and the examples all use "/etc/init.d/<whatever> <command>". > [That's what I tend to use because it allows tab-completion.] Gentoo installs completions for rc-service for both Zsh and Bash. ¹ <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Iptables#First_run> ² <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Iptables#Generating_firewall_rules>
