Re: Generically running rc scripts

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 09:57:24PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> I'd quite like to see this imported into NetBSD, pretty much for the
> two obvious reasons:
> - rc locations differ between systems (BSD, differing Linuxes), this
> allows "service squid restart" across any of them

There is no standard on using "service" on Linux either, AFAICT. As
such, the benefit is quite limited.

> - The -e option as Julian mentions would be very convenient to provide
> a list of effective rc values (from whichever file they are defined). 

How does this differ from using . as debugging aid?

Joerg