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I've always sort of liked the 'service' command that comes with redhat, so I created my own:

Create a file (as root) /usr/sbin/service

Code:
#!/bin/sh

set -e

/etc/init.d/$1 $2 $3

Done.. :)

Example usage:

Code:
service mysql start

service mysql stop

service sshd start

Always one for making completions I did this too, mind this is gentoo aimed a little (the secondary option)

Place this in ~/.bashrc or /etc/bash.bashrc (or /etc/bash_completion.d/service for gentoo users)

Code:
# a function for the autocompletion of the service command.

_service_fn()

{

 # set some local variables

 local cur prev

 COMPREPLY=()

 cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}

 prev=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}

 #if only one completion or a option is being requested

 #then complete against various options

 if [ $COMP_CWORD -eq 1 ]; then

COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$(ls /etc/init.d)" $cur ))

 elif [ $COMP_CWORD -eq 2 ]; then

COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "start stop restart pause zap status ineed iuse needsme usesme broken" $cur ))

 else

COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -f $cur ))

 fi

 return 0

}

#setup the completion

complete -F _service_fn service

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