[PATCH] usage stanza

[Petr Lautrbach]

Hello,

attached patch is implementation of suggested functionality including
"initctl usage JOB" command.

Regards,

Petr

On 10/24/2011 05:36 PM, Petr Lautrbach wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to add to upstart new stanza called 'usage' with
> following syntax:
>
> usage <usage message>
>
> It's intended to help administrator to better understand how to control
> jobs which depends on various variables, e.g:
>
> let's have tty job with exec stanza:
>
> exec /sbin/mingetty $TTY
>
>
> Now, if I try to start, stop or show status of this job I see:
> # status tty
> status: Unknown parameter: TTY
>
> So I have to open /etc/init/tty.conf and check what does it mean.
> With usage stanza like this:
> usage 'tty TTY=/dev/ttyX - where X is console id'
>
> I will see:
> # status tty
> status: Unknown parameter: TTY
> usage: tty TTY=/dev/ttyX - where X is console id
>
>
> There is attached patch which is functional proposal of this feature.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Petr
>


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Petr Lautrbach, Red Hat, Inc.
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