Random thoughts. (Was Stuff)

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Sat Nov 3 14:44:36 UTC 2007


On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> You can get a list of the supported commands by using an invalid
> option. I like "service <name> help" as in:
>
> # service smb help
> Usage: /etc/init.d/smb {start|stop|restart|reload|status|condrestart}

or you could just leave the option out entirely, to get exactly the
same result:

  # service smb
  Usage: /etc/init.d/smb {start|stop|restart|reload|status|condrestart}

heh.  top *that*.

rday

p.s.  i am a little annoyed that the usage message doesn't reflect how
you invoked that feature, instead referring to "/etc/init.d/smb".
that's bound to confuse a few people who will have no idea what it's
referring to.
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