On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > You can get a list of the supported commands by using an invalid > option. I like "service <name> help" as in: > > # service smb help > Usage: /etc/init.d/smb {start|stop|restart|reload|status|condrestart} or you could just leave the option out entirely, to get exactly the same result: # service smb Usage: /etc/init.d/smb {start|stop|restart|reload|status|condrestart} heh. top *that*. rday p.s. i am a little annoyed that the usage message doesn't reflect how you invoked that feature, instead referring to "/etc/init.d/smb". that's bound to confuse a few people who will have no idea what it's referring to. -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================