[znx]

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

#!/bin/sh

set -e

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

Done..

Example usage:

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)

# 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