service -e doesn't really sort does it? the cool tip is slightly off

Graham Perrin grahamperrin at gmail.com
Sun Jan 17 13:47:05 UTC 2021


On 16/01/2021 23:28, Dennis Clarke wrote:

> … maybe take out the word "sorted". Either that or
> insert the "started order" as the manpage claims  :
>
> root at rhea:/usr/src/freebsd-src # diff -u
> usr.bin/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips.orig
> usr.bin/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips
> --- usr.bin/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips.orig  2021-01-15
> 00:37:37.863506000 +0000
> +++ usr.bin/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips       2021-01-16
> 07:46:57.335803000 +0000
> @@ -517,7 +517,7 @@
>
>                  -- Lars Engels <lme at FreeBSD.org>
>   %
> -If you want to get a sorted list of all services that are started when
> FreeBSD boots,
> +If you want to get a list of all services that are started when FreeBSD
> boots,
>   enter "service -e".
>
>                  -- Lars Engels <lme at FreeBSD.org>
> root at rhea:/usr/src/freebsd-src #
>
> Sorry for being all OCD here. Perhaps it should say sorted in the order
> in which they were started. Something like that.
>

In lieu of 'sorted', how about 'dependency-ordered'?




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