NAME 

svc-start - Start a svscan service.

SYNOPSIS 

svc-start [ -q ] SERVICE

DESCRIPTION 

svc-start causes svscan to start the named service by first waiting for svscan to start a supervise task, then marking the service as up, and finally waiting the service to be marked as running. It does the above three steps on the service's log service, if it exists, prior to starting the service.

OPTIONS 

-q Suppress all non-error messages.

ENVIRONMENT 

SVSCANDIR
If set, this overrides the default of /service for the directory into which the services should be linked.