On Tuesday 12 August 2008 17:51:32 Mike Meyer wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:10:22 +0200 "Adrian Penisoara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
