Re: "service" command like that in Red Hat

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 22-Apr-04, 12:49 (CDT), John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote: 
> Andreas Metzler writes:
> > Does RedHat's "service" honor the current setting of symlinks or whatever
> > you might find on RedHat that corresponds to Debian's runlevel policy
> > stuff?
> 
> I don't know if Red Hat has anything similar to policy-rc.  In any case,
> the Red Hat service script I've got a copy of just runs the initscript.
> However, I don't know what the Red Hat initscripts might have in them.

Nothing that isn't roughly equivalent to Debian scripts. "service foo
start" is equivalent to "/etc/init.d/foo start", there's no check
against runlevel.

Steve


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