OpenRC zap
By chimo on (updated on )I don’t remember how I stumbled on this, but today I learned about the `zap` OpenRC command.
From the OpenRC User Guide:
There is a special command zap that makes OpenRC ‘forget’ that a service is started; this is mostly useful to reset a crashed service to stopped state without invoking the (possibly broken) stop function of the service script.
The Gentoo wiki has a usage example:
root # rc-service docker status * status: crashed root # rc-service docker start * WARNING: docker has already been started root # rc-service docker stop * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * Stopping docker ... * Failed to stop docker [ !! ] * ERROR: docker failed to stop # To remedy this situation, zap the service
root # rc-service docker zap