[nycbug-talk] Freebsd service controll

Isaac (.ike) Levy ike at blackskyresearch.net
Tue Jan 15 16:16:34 EST 2013


On Jan 15, 2013, at 2:11 AM, Andy Kosela wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Dru Lavigne <dru.lavigne at att.net> wrote:
>> 
>>>    was just reading the quarterly
>>> report for freebsd and spotted this
>>>    gem - has anyone taken a poke at this yet?
>>> 
>>>    FreeBSD Services Control (fsc)
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We played with this tool at my FreeBSD class last month. It
>> works as advertised in a "just works" sort of way. It's on
>> my todo list to add to the PC-BSD handbook as it's included
>> in the default install of PC-BSD/TrueOS.
> 
> IMHO it should be added to the FreeBSD base too.  This utility
> somewhat reminds me of the reincarnation daemon from MINIX.  It's
> really neat.
> 
> --Andy

I'm suspicious already, just looked closer and downloaded it,
http://people.freebsd.org/~trhodes/fsc/

> To remove a service either: 
o kill -9 $SERVICE; 
> o fscadm disable $SERVICE. 

Not getting me off on the right foot to like this thing, time to play with it and see what it's about…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4

Rocket-
.ike






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