Re: Generically running rc scripts

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Julian Fagir wrote:
> About the former matter: It's good for omitting redundant code 
> for parsing rc_directories, rcvar and name. If you want to 
> restart a service currently, you have to parse rc.conf and in 
> some cases also all rc scripts manually for their names and 
> rcvar to get the right one.

What redundant code would be eliminated, and what manual parsing 
would be eliminated?  I am just not seeing it.

Sure, there are a few lines of redundant code at the top of each 
rc.d script, but adding a wrapper does nothing to remove that 
redundant code.  Getting rid of the rc.d scripts would get rid of 
the redundant code, but I thought you explicitly said that you did 
not want to do that.

When I want to restart a service like "named", I don't have to do 
any manual parsing; I just run "/etc/rc.d/named restart".

--apb (Alan Barrett)