The difference between /etc/init.d/progname start and progname start

[Kirtis Bakalarczyk]

/etc/init.d/prognam is used to start daemons -- that is, programs that
run in the background and provide a service, like a web server, or
email server, etc. The files in /etc/init.d/ are scripts that take
care of most of the details of starting and stopping these services,
including running the actual program that provides the service.

Typing "progname start", runs progname and passes "start" as it's
first argument.  Assuming "progname" is designed to take an argument
named "start" (i can't think of any that do), then it will act
accordingly.

Hope that helps,

KIRT


On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 04:43:04 -0800, Behrang Saeedzadeh
<behrangsa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> What's the difference between
> 
>    /etc/init.d/{progname} start
> 
> and
> 
>   {progname} start
> 
> ?
> 
> Regards,
> Behrang S.
> 
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