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From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <jbahm@pcdesk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: preventing slackware services from auto starting
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 13:50:46 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.63.0509051347190.2360@merlin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050905115645.GA3629@lnx3.holmesgrown.com>

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Whether or not you need it has to do with whether or not the script has
execute permition. If it does, then you won't need that. The period is
just another way of saying the word "source" at the beginning of a line.
Thus:

. /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia stop

Is the same as:

source /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia stop

Bash will run these whether or not the script has the execute permition
provided you have used "." or "source".

- --
It's not one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and
over. (History repeats itself)
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm@pcdesk.net
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And so it came to pass that on Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Steve Holmes said

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> On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 07:58:24PM -0600, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
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>> To turn off the pcmcia service in slackware, try this:
>>
>> chmod a-x /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia
>>
>> To kill it without rebooting, do this:
>>
>> . /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia stop
>>
>> Note the period at the beginning, it is required.
>
> Why is that first period necessary? I've seen that from time to time
in
> Slackware startup scripts but I never knew why and when I've added
> commands to my own startup scripts, I usually leave it out with no
known
> effects.
>
> - --
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  parent reply	other threads:[~ UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Jude DaShiell
 ` Gregory Nowak
 ` Garrett Klein
 ` Joseph C. Lininger
   ` Steve Holmes
     ` Adam Myrow
     ` Joseph C. Lininger [this message]
     ` Ralph W. Reid
       ` Steve Holmes

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