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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject: Re: Proposal: multi-instance and self-contained rc.d script
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On Mon, 1 Jul 2013, Warner Losh wrote:

>
> On Jul 1, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
>>> '/etc/rc.d/routed manpage' would return the generated mdoc code.
>>> '/etc/rc.d/routed help' could pipe that output to man.
>>
>> We should discourage directly running rc.d scripts and should instead
>> encourage people to use the service(1) interface.
>>
>> +1 for both ideas though: they both sound like a very good direction to go in.
>
> I just need a tcsh magic command to make command completion work with service. :)

Like this?

   complete service      'c/-/(e l r v)/' \
                         'p/1/`service -l`/' \
                         'n/*/(start stop reload restart status rcvar onestart onestop)/'