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Re: why no "service" to run /etc/init.d/* scripts?



On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 03:27:53AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote:
> other distros have a nice hunk of syntactic sugar (so simple it
> could be a shell function -- a separate script file seems like
> overkill) called
> 
> 	service <initscript> <start/stop/restart>
> 
> which runs /etc/init.d/* scripts. how come woody doesn't have
> such a thing by default? 

...because it's just as easy to type "/etc/init.d/foo restart"?

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