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| author | William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> | 2013-03-20 15:21:03 -0500 |
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| committer | William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> | 2013-03-20 15:42:09 -0500 |
| commit | 879c7f04eca9336ae9dcccc23c818a9125792123 (patch) | |
| tree | aa5cbfa0919cdb101cbd0b830846beeca80ccbbb /man | |
| parent | 66dd88d6f6a28b9b607433248ead8bde57e2b258 (diff) | |
runscript: update documentation for the provide function
Explain that virtual services take precedence over real services and
recommend that virtual services have different names from real services.
Reported-by: me@2gw.net
X-Gentoo-Bug: 461818
X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461818
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/runscript.8 | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/runscript.8 b/man/runscript.8 index 044bef78..72775465 100644 --- a/man/runscript.8 +++ b/man/runscript.8 @@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ The service will start after these services and stop before these services. The service will start before these services and stop after these services. .It Ic provide We provide this virtual service. For example, named provides dns. +Virtual services take precedence over real services, so it is highly +recommended that you do not have a real service that has the same name +as a virtual service. .It Ic config We should recalculate our dependencies if the listed files have changed. .It Ic keyword |