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On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:46 PM, 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?

Not to long ago I wrote a FreeBSD specific version of service.
I have some additional things I want to add in at a later date,
but this version works pretty well.

http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer/patches/service.diff

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Steven Kreuzer
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