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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:37:16 +0000
From:      "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@qxnitro.org>
To:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: explicit use of /etc/rc.d vs service
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On 23 Jan 2013 15:54, "Eitan Adler" <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
>
> Would anyone object to a patch which converts uses of
> "/etc/rc.d/daemon start" to "service daemon start" and the like?
> I would like to see service(1) become the standard interface to using
services.

Sounds like a very good idea. I don't know how many times I have had
problems with bad paths leaking into cron etc meaning it fails on reboot
since something depended on the trained environment. (Service solves that.)

Simon



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