macports stages - how to stop server processes?

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

On Oct 21, 2008, at 1:33 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> The feature uses launchctl, not apachectl, pcastctl or any other.  
> The arguments to launchctl that we use are load and unload, so  
> that's what the arguments to the port command were called as well.
>
> We could discuss changing load/unload to start/stop and adding a  
> restart command. It was just never brought up before.

OK, I was somehow under the impression that this was trying to  
impedance-match the "service start" interfaces, not simply an alias  
for launchctl (though, that said, I think "load" in combination with - 
w is something of a misnomer in launchctl since it is doing far more  
than "loading" the plist, it is also enabling it and making it  
persistent, in effect "starting" it permanently).   I withdraw my  
objection!

Thanks,

- Jordan