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Autor: Didier Kryn
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Para: dng
Assunto: Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan
Le 04/05/2016 15:44, Rob Owens a écrit :
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Didier Kryn" <kryn@???>
>> Le 03/05/2016 19:10, Rob Owens a écrit :
>>> Yes, but then when an openrc user wants to start/stop a service, he
>>> cannot do '/etc/init.d/myservice start' like he could do on any other
>>> OS using openrc.  He'd have to do '/etc/openrc/myservice start'.  Not a
>>> really big deal, but I think it's undesirable to make Devuan's openrc
>>> procedures different (especially when it could be addressed with a
>>> simple symlink).
>>      Normally the admin invokes the service command,

>>
>>      sudo service ssh restart
>>      sudo service nginx status

>>
>>      etc.

>>
>>      service could probably be modified to talk to the init system in
>> charge.
> Normally *this* admin never uses the service command because:

     I always use it. With some experience you know the service names as 
well as the basic Unix command names.

>
> 1) it is not available on all distros or may not be installed


     Talking of Debian/Devuan

> 2) tab completion doesn't always work with the service command (depending
>     on the distro, I suppose)
> 3) tab completion always works when you specify the path to the script
>     and you are running a bash shell

>
> Is the service called 'smb' or 'samba'? Is it 'network' or 'networking'?
> That's why tab completion is important to me. I'm surprised that I seem
> to be the only one who thinks this way.
>

     Bash tab completion does work - I agree it's rather sophisticated.


     Didier