On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 00:34 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > If the alsa script in /etc/init.d was responsible for the whole ALSA > sound system, then yes, you would be correct. But it isn't. It only > looks after one part of ALSA: setting the sound levels. It would be > annoying to have to reset them each time, but it's not essential. > Since the /etc/init.d/alsa script *isn't* responsible for the whole of > ALSA, it should be given a name that better reflects what it does, and > that can be found in the manual pages. Unfortunately, if you call the init script 'alsactl' and expect to be able to find a man page on the init script by typing 'man alsactl' you will be sorely disappointed. The only way around this is to introduce a new man page section for init scripts, and like someone else in this thread pointed out, if you have a user that could find this documentation, it's probably a user that could 'less' the script itself. Now, aside from the aforementioned system-config-services type of contextual documentation, there could be a 'help' argument in addition to the standard 'start|stop|restart|reload' commands. Now someone needs to only know how to use /sbin/service, which they should already know if they plan on starting or stopping the service from a terminal anyway. -- Aaron Gaudio <prothonotar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
