Port of "service" command

[Freddie Cash]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Edwin Shao <eshao at ring0.org> wrote:

> I was wondering if there was a port of the Linux/UNIX service
> <http://www.manpagez.com/man/8/service/>,
> <http://linux.die.net/man/8/service> command? If not, is there any
> philosophical reason or roadblock to my creating one?
>

What's there to port?  A simple shell script like the following will work:
#!/bin/sh

if [ -z "$2" ]; then
        echo "Missing action."
        echo "Usage: $( basename ${0} ) {service}
{start|stop|restart|reload|status}"
        exit 2
elif [ -z "$1" ]; then
        echo "Missing service name."
        echo "Usage: $( basename ${0} ) {service}
{start|stop|restart|reload|status}"
        exit 1
fi

if [ -x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/${1}.sh ]; then
        runcmd="/usr/local/etc/rc.d/${1}.sh ${2}"
elif [ -x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/${1} ]; then
        runcmd="/usr/local/etc/rc.d/${1} ${2}"
elif [ -x /etc/rc.d/${1}.sh ]; then
        runcmd="/etc/rc.d/${1}.sh ${2}"
elif [ -x /etc/rc.d/${1} ]; then
        runcmd="/etc/rc.d/${1} ${2}"
else
        runcmd=""
fi

if [ -n "${runcmd}" ]; then
        echo "Running command:  ${runcmd}"
        ${runcmd}
        retval=$?
else
        echo "No rc.d script found for ${1}"
        retval=3
fi

exit ${retval}

I'm pretty sure something like this was discussed on one of the mailing
lists in the past year, as well.  You may want to search the archives for
ports@, hackers@, and stable at .


-- 
Freddie Cash
fjwcash at gmail.com