On 8/10/10 6:49 PM, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Having got so used to doing this at work just recently, I wondered why LFS > didn't have the > 'service' binary. Apparently it should be supplied by sysvinit (see, for > example, > http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/i386/sysvinit-utils/filelist). It was > apparently added in > 2.86ds1-62 (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534300) yet > our 2.88dsf > version doesn't contain it. I gave up looking for it after that!
In Fedora, it's just a shell script, provided by the initscripts package, and it's not really a long script, either. Here's a snippet from its man page: SYNOPSIS service SCRIPT COMMAND [OPTIONS] service --status-all service --help | -h | --version DESCRIPTION service runs a System V init script in as predictable environment as possible, removing most environment variables and with current working directory set to /. Jeremy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page