port load/unload

[Nick Ludlam]

On 19 Sep 2010, at 00:30, Nick Ludlam wrote:

> On 18 Sep 2010, at 21:31, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> Sure, the message could be expanded. A revised suggestion:
>> 
>> 
>> ###########################################################
>> # A launchd plist has been created to help you start and
>> # stop the <port name> daemon. It is stopped by default.
>> #
>> # To start the <port name> daemon now and during every
>> # subsequent system startup, run the following command:
>> #
>> # sudo port load <port name>
>> #
>> # To stop the <port name> daemon now and to prevent it
>> # from from starting automatically during system startup,
>> # run the following command:
>> #
>> # sudo port unload <port name>
>> ###########################################################
>> 
>> 
>> I feel adding "daemon" is important since a port might install both a client component and a server component, and the launchd plist would only apply to the server component.
> 
> Yeah that looks fine.  If this can be committed, I'll draw up a list of ports that have related (and subsequently redundant) ui_msg statements that we can remove

Just following up, was this considered to be a good thing? The discussion got somewhat diverted into the gsoc08-privileges minefield.

Nick

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