[Pm-utils] Somewhat significant change on pm-utils master git branch

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Wed Apr 14 06:37:59 PDT 2010


On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Victor Lowther
<victor.lowther at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 09:37 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> On 13 April 2010 04:20, Victor Lowther <victor.lowther at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > pm-utils now implements its own service command
>>
>> What does it do? What's the point?
>
> Avoids the need to patch functions.in for every non-LSB distro that does
> not provide one of its own.

Just for completeness, service has nothing to do with the LSB. It's
just a common (and convenient) script used in linux distros. If you
just wanted to assume LSB compliance, you could run /etc/init.d/foo
directly.

--
Dan


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