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| author | William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> | 2013-04-28 12:51:12 -0500 |
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| committer | William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> | 2013-04-28 12:51:12 -0500 |
| commit | 10a4385e409b48d9aa60590c140d4ca6485a7a72 (patch) | |
| tree | dc52fb42c93f37fad1eeba1eb65441c090e59705 /man | |
| parent | 10eabd4d921cea895b8f9bde47f29d107f39fa0b (diff) | |
rc: allow switching runlevels without stopping services
OpenRC, by default, stops all services that are not listed in a runlevel
when rc is used to switch runlevels. This adds a -n/--no-stop command
line option to rc which tells it to skip stopping the services which are
not in the runlevel.
Reported-by: gentoo@thoth.purplefrog.com
X-Gentoo-Bug: 372585
X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372585
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/rc.8 | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -29,16 +29,17 @@ .Nd stops and starts services for the specified runlevel .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm +.Op Fl n , -no-stop .Op Fl o , -override .Op Ar runlevel .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm -first stops any services that are not for the runlevel and then starts any -services in the runlevel and from stacked runlevels added by +first stops any services that are not in the specified runlevel unless +--no-stop is specified, then starts any services in the runlevel and +stacked runlevels added by .Nm rc-update that are not currently started. -If no runlevel is specified then we use the current runlevel the system -is currently in. +If no runlevel is specified, we use the current runlevel. .Pp There are some special runlevels that you should be aware of: .Bl -tag -width "shutdown" |