On Wednesday 13 August 2008 10:40:53 Vincent Hoffman wrote: > Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > > > > People keep talking about forcestart. > > > > Unless I'm misunderstanding things horribly, forcestart does exactly that > > - forces the service to start regardless of any error that may occur. > > > > The better option for starting something as a one-off (not enabled in > > rc.conf) is mnemonically named onestart - which only ignores the rcvar > > but still fails on any other error. > > > > And yes, I like having onestart/onestop distinguished from start/stop. > > I believe it "forces" a start even though its not actually enabled (in > rc.conf) rather than regardless of errors. > If you really want a command line of onestart/onestop install the > sysutils/bsdadminscripts port which has a script called rconestart and > rconestop which do exactly that ;)
No, you don't need to install anything - it's part of rc.subr. From the rc.subr(8) manpage: argument may have one of the following prefixes which alters its operation: fast Skip the check for an existing running process, and sets rc_fast=YES. force Skip the checks for rcvar being set to ``YES'', and sets rc_force=YES. This ignores argument_precmd returning non-zero, and ignores any of the required_* tests failing, and always returns a zero exit status. one Skip the checks for rcvar being set to ``YES'', but performs all the other prerequisite tests. I certainly use onestart - generally when I'm configuring and testing a new service before enabling it in rc.conf. I also use it with NFS. Whenever I've changed /etc/exports, I force mountd to reread it by issuing /etc/rc.d/mountd onereload Jonathan _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"