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SERVICE(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						SERVICE(8)

NAME
service SYNOPSIS
service service command service --list service --test-if-configured-on service service --test-if-available service DESCRIPTION
service is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of Mac OS X. service is a simple utility to abstract the management of services provided by the system. It can be used to start and stop services, as well as to determine the status of services. OPTIONS
service command Attempt to execute a given command for a given service. Currently, the available commands are 'start' and 'stop'. --list List all available services. --test-if-configured-on service Exit with status 0 if the service is currently enabled. Otherwise, exit with status 1. --test-if-available service Exit with status 0 if the service's daemon exists on your system. Otherwise, exit with status 1. Darwin October 15, 2004 Darwin

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XRCTL(1)							     Man Page								  XRCTL(1)

NAME
xrctl - Crossroads control-script SYNOPSIS
xrctl [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents xrctl, the Crossroads control-script. Instead of starting XR by hand, consider using xrctl. Edit /etc/xrctl.xml, which is the configuration file, and configure your service(s), all their options, and back ends. Then type xrctl start to start all your services, or xrctl stop to stop them. OPTIONS
list [SERVICE] - show configuration of a service, or of all start [SERVICE] - start a service, or all configured services stop [SERVICE] - stop a service, or all configured services kill [SERVICE] - brutal stop, interrupts connections force [SERVICE] - start a service (or all) if not running stopstart [SERVICE] - stop and start a service, or all killstart [SERVICE] - kill and start a service, or all status [SERVICE] - show running status of a service, or of all rotate [SERVICE] - rotate logs of a service or of all generateconfig [SERVICE] - queries running XR's for the configuration and shows it in the format of /etc/xrctl.xml SEE ALSO
xr(1), xrctl.xml(5) AUTHOR
xrctl was written by Karel Kubat <karel@kubat.nl>. Web page: http://crossroads.e-tunity.com This man page was written by Frederik Dannemare <frederik@dannemare.net> and updated by Karel Kubat <karel@kubat.nl>. Crossroads 2008,2009 XRCTL(1)
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