If not the force, what should I use?

[Vincent Hoffman]

Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Doh I just skimmed though /etc/rc.subr not the manpage, thanks for the 
pointers.

Vince

> Jonathan
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