Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:13:56 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-hackers@hst.org.za> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: If not the force, what should I use? (Was: FreeBSD in Business (was Re: Idea for FreeBSD)) Message-ID: <200808130813.56656.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-hackers@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <20080812115132.44b2e8f7@mbook.local> References: <78cb3d3f0808120810o54f49373n69ac5076c9a9c9b7@mail.gmail.com> <20080812115132.44b2e8f7@mbook.local>
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On Tuesday 12 August 2008 17:51:32 Mike Meyer wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:10:22 +0200 "Adrian Penisoara" <ady@freebsd.ady.ro> wrote: > > > > Umm, I have used Gentoo and I do not remember having to use > > "forcestart" at the command line... > > Ok, given that you 1) want to have both "XXXX this service if it's > part of our normal runtime" and "XXXX this service even if it's not > part of our normal runtime" as script commands, and that 2) XXXX > without a prefix gets the "if it's part of our normal runtime" > meaning, as we want the user to have to explicitly say "Yes, I know > this looks odd, but I know what I'm doing so do it anyway" to get the > "even if it's not part of our normal runtime" behavior, then what > would you have us use instead of "forceXXXX"? People keep talking about forcestart. Unless I'm misunderstanding things horribly, forcestart does exactly that - forces the service to start regardless of any error that may occur. The better option for starting something as a one-off (not enabled in rc.conf) is mnemonically named onestart - which only ignores the rcvar but still fails on any other error. And yes, I like having onestart/onestop distinguished from start/stop. Jonathan
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