Project genrc
genrc
2.0
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2025-03-20
* Environment variables are no longer used by default. To instruct genrc to read its settings from environment variables, use the --env option. You can limit the set of variables to use by supplying their names as an argument to that option, e.g.: --env=GENRC_COMMAND,GENRC_PROGRAM. This is incompatible change. If you use GENRC_ environment variables, please upgrade your scripts. Since previous versions of the program used environment by default, in order to facilitate upgrading, genrc will issue a warning, if it is run without the --env option and any of the supported environment variables are set. * Command line processing rewritten from scratch. * New option -C DIR: change to DIR. * Support for PCRE2.
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 (e.g. 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.