Re: "service" command like that in Red Hat

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 08:08:18AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> I'm considering adding a "service" command similar to the one in Red Hat to
> the sysvconfig package.  It would be little more than a link to
> invoke-rc.d.  Are there any objections?  It occurred to me that the use of
> such a generic name might give rise to some opposition.

If Debian's service would have exactly the same semantics as RedHat's go
ahead, otherwise please don't because a command doing something else
than you expected is worse than "command not found".
              cu andreas