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R-SERVICE

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NAME

r-service - locate and run an OpenRC service with the given arguments

SYNOPSIS

[-c ,-ifcrashed ] service cmd [... ]
-d ,-debug service cmd [... ]
-D ,-nodeps service cmd [... ]
[-i ,-ifexists ] service cmd [... ]
[-I ,-ifinactive ] service cmd [... ]
[-N ,-ifnotstarted ] service cmd [... ]
[-s ,-ifstarted ] service cmd [... ]
[-S ,-ifstopped ] service cmd [... ]
-e ,-exists service
-Z ,-dr-run service cmd [... ]
-l ,-list
-r ,-resolve service

DESCRIPTION

Service scripts could be in different places on different systems. locates the specified service and runs it with the given arguments. If -i ,-ifexists is given then returns 0 even if the service does not exist. If -I ,-ifinactive or -N ,-ifnotstarted is given then returns 0 if the service exists but is in the wrong state.

If given the -l ,-list argument then will list all available services.

-e ,-exists return 0 if it can find service otherwise-1. -r ,-resolve does the same and also prints the full path of the service to stdout.

-d ,-debug sets-x when running the service script(s).

-D ,-nodeps ignores dependencies when running the service.

-Z ,-dr-run displays commands rather than executing them.

AUTHORS

An Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>