From 879c7f04eca9336ae9dcccc23c818a9125792123 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: William Hubbs Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:21:03 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] runscript: update documentation for the provide function Explain that virtual services take precedence over real services and recommend that virtual services have different names from real services. Reported-by: me@2gw.net X-Gentoo-Bug: 461818 X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461818 --- man/runscript.8 | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/runscript.8 b/man/runscript.8 index 044bef78..72775465 100644 --- a/man/runscript.8 +++ b/man/runscript.8 @@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ The service will start after these services and stop before these services. The service will start before these services and stop after these services. .It Ic provide We provide this virtual service. For example, named provides dns. +Virtual services take precedence over real services, so it is highly +recommended that you do not have a real service that has the same name +as a virtual service. .It Ic config We should recalculate our dependencies if the listed files have changed. .It Ic keyword