[Pm-utils] services

[Stefan Seyfried]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:17:02AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> Currently in pm/functions:stopservice() we use:
> 
> /sbin/service "$1" stop
> 
> Which is very Redhat specific. How do we do the same thing (starting and
> stopping services) on Suse, Ubuntu, Debian etc?

We should just use the LSB standard which is (IIRC, i might be wrong)
/etc/init.d/$SERVICE {start|stop}

This won't work on slackware, where /etc/rc.d/$SERVICE works.

> We should just add a check for /etc/$distro$-release and use the right
> script IMO.

maybe only for those that do not follow LSB?
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