Options for starting "*.sh" programs

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Sat Oct 22 14:20:06 PDT 2005


In the last episode (Oct 22), Gerard Seibert said:
> In the '/usr/local/etc/rc.d' directory, I have discovered that I have
> several options available with the various programs listed there.
> 
> For instance, take the samba.sh program. It lists these options:
> 
> [fast|force|one](start stop restart rcvar status poll}
> 
> I understand the obvious start, stop, restart, rcvar and status.
> However, what do the fast, force, one and poll options do?

They're described in the rc.subr manpage.
 
> I cannot seem to find anything in the manual regarding this? No
> doubt, I am looking in the wrong place.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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