Thayer Williams wrote:
I would have to side with Travis here. In case it's just too much hassle to type, you can always add some bash functions to make it even simpler. Here's what I've got in ~/.bashrc (it's based off someone else's example from the forums...): # start, stop, restart, reload - simple daemon management # usage: start <daemon-name> start() { for arg in $*; do sudo /etc/rc.d/$arg start done }
As I originally started on RedHat, and so am a bit partial to the "service foo start" syntax, I always put the following script into /root/bin on my Arch boxes:
[darose@davidrlin ~]$ sudo cat /root/bin/service /etc/rc.d/$* DR