Re: why no "service" to run /etc/init.d/* scripts?
On 2004-04-17, Will Trillich penned:
> 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? i'm wondering if there's a security issue that isn't
> obvious to the neophyte...?
>
what about invoke-rc.d ?
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monique
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