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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:01:16 +0300
From: Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net>
To: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch>
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:46:48PM +0100, Tobias Roth wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have an rc.d/ scripts in the works that would benefit from a second
> argument, eg /etc/rc.d/myscript start foobar
> 
> As it looks, this is not possible with the current mechanism of
> run_rc_command(). So my questions:
> 
> 1) is there already a corrct way to do this?

This functionality is available. Take a look at rc.d/netif and rc.d/moused
to see how it is used.

Cheers.
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