Jonathan McKeown wrote:
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.
I believe it "forces" a start even though its not actually enabled (in
rc.conf) rather than regardless of errors.
If you really want a command line of onestart/onestop install the
sysutils/bsdadminscripts port which has a script called rconestart and
rconestop which do exactly that ;)
Vince
Jonathan
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