If not the force, what should I use?

[Mike Meyer]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:58:39 +0100 Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 08:00 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > 
> >            stop     If the service is to be started as specified by
> >                     rc.conf(5), stop the service.  This should check that the
> >                     service is running and complain if it is not.  If
> >                     forcestop is given, ignore the rc.conf(5) check and
> >                     attempt to stop.
> > 
> Why should it complain?

Because somebody quoted it out of context to justify a completely
bogus assumption about what was and wasn't a bug.

The bug in question is that the man page should note that
force(start|stop|restart) should ignore any precmd problems as well as
the setting in rc.conf, as that is what the tools provided by rc.subr
do.

	 <mike

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