Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 22:16:56 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port of "service" command Message-ID: <20090609221656.752e9c8f@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4A2EB864.1060006@FreeBSD.org> References: <17ca67550906091046t15dfa574i95e432a09e60d379@mail.gmail.com> <1d3ed48c0906091140t37fbdd4eq84a1153348db7a53@mail.gmail.com> <4A2EB864.1060006@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:30:44 -0700
Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Kevin Downey wrote:
> > I have a similar shell function I am rather fond of:
> >
> > rc(){
> > find /etc/rc.d/"$1" /usr/local/etc/rc.d/"$1" -exec sudo {} `echo
> > "$*"|cut -f 2- -d \ ` \;
> > }
>
> Wow, that's painful. :) The only reason you don't notice how painful
> is because those two directories have only a few files. Much much more
> efficient would be something like:
>
> rc () {
> local script=$1
> shift
>
> if [ -x "/etc/rc.d/$script" ]; then
> /etc/rc.d/$script $*
> elif [ -x "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/$script" ]; then
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/$script $*
> else
> echo "$script does not exist in /etc/rc.d or"
> echo "/usr/local/etc/rc.d"
> return 1
> fi
> }
This kind of thing is already implemented by the
sysutils/bsdadminscripts port.
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