>I'm not a sysadmin, but am digging into service. I don't recall that >the service man page was that helpful, but will look again.
service is mostly a shortcut to save typing. If you think it is getting in your way, run /etc/init.d/ntpd <whatever> by hand. (It also fixes up environment and cd-ed directory and whatever.) The -x command to bash will print each line as it gets expanded and executed. So you might try something like: bash -x /etc/init.d/ntpd start to see what is really going on. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
