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* Overview

This is a generic helper program for writing system initialization
scripts. Depending on the operation mode, it starts, stops,
reconfigures or displays the status of a specific program.

Primary audience is Slackware system administrators. However, the
tool is generic enough to be used on any other Linux (and not only)
distribution.

In the contrast to another similar programs like start-stop-daemon,
it is designed so that the entire rc file can consist of only one
line, invoking (or exec'ing) genrc with the right set of arguments.

* Example

The following is the example /etc/rc.d/rc.ntpd script:

#! /bin/sh
PIDFILE=/var/run/ntpd.pid
exec /sbin/genrc \
     --command="/usr/sbin/ntpd -g -p $PIDFILE" \
     --no-reload \
     --signal-stop=SIGHUP \
     --pid-from="FILE:$PIDFILE" "$@"

* Downloads

This and newer versions of genrc can be downloaded from

   http://download.gnu.org.ua/release/genrc

For the recent development sources, see

   http://git.gnu.org.ua/cgit/genrc.git

* Building

When building from source package, usual incantations apply:

 ./configure
 make
 make install

If you are building from a clone of the Git repository, you will need
GNU autotools to bootstrap the package first. Run

  autoreconf -f -i -s

in the top level source directory. This will create the configure
script and populate the directory with the missing files. Then proceed
as described above.

* Documentation

Manpage genrc.8 included. After installing the package, run
man genrc.

* Bug reporting.		

Send bug reports to <gray@gnu.org>. 


* Copyright information:

Copyright (C) 2018 Sergey Poznyakoff

   Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
   of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
   copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
   thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.

   Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
   of this document, or of portions of it,
   under the above conditions, provided also that they
   carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.


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