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Subject: Re: Port of "service" command
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Doug Barton wrote:
> Edwin Shao wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was wondering if there was a port of the Linux/UNIX service
>> <http://www.manpagez.com/man/8/service/>,
>> <http://linux.die.net/man/8/service> command? If not, is there any
>> philosophical reason or roadblock to my creating one?
> 
> I think you'd need to answer the question of how is this solution
> similar to just running '/etc/rc.d/foo start'?

D'oh ... s/similar/superior/

Doug

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