[Cialug] debian sarge

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

True,  but whats nice about it is that it provides a consistent method,
and most of scripts to start/stop the services already exist.




On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 11:43, David Champion wrote:
> The service command is just a script, it could easily be used on a 
> Debian system.
> 
> Really all it does is saves you a small amount of typing.
> 
> service httpd restart
> 
> ... is similar to typing:
> 
> /etc/init.d/httpd restart
> 
> ... I did the latter for a long time before I discovered the service 
> script (or before the service script existed).
> 
> -dc
> 
> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> > Yeah, the redhat service command is handy. I also prefer the way redhat
> > configures the networking. 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 10:37, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> > 
> >>It was you who showed me the light.  
> >>
> >>I was pretty stuck on redhat based distros (that service command is handy)
> >>until you showed us MythTV setup with Debian.  Of course the Sarge
> >>installation helps too.
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Theron Conrey [mailto:theron at conrey.org] 
> >>Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 8:40 AM
> >>To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> >>Subject: Re: [Cialug] debian sarge
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>*cough* PRIMATIVE?!?!??!? if I had a vine I'd swing over there....... :)
> >>Theron
> >>
> >>
> >>Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I'll be interested too, I'm trying Debian on a couple machines as well 
> >>>and it is a little more clean (primitive?) than things like fedora, 
> >>>mepis and ubuntu.
> >>>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>From: Dan Hockey [mailto:icepuck2k at mchsi.com]
> >>>Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 6:29 PM
> >>>To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> >>>Subject: [Cialug] debian sarge
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>I installed a working base system of sarge today :-) ,and now I'm 
> >>>trying
> >>>to figure out how to start and stop background services from the command 
> >>>line. Is there something else I need to install to do this? I managed to 
> >>>install smb,cups, and apache. This is my first working install of debian 
> >>>so pardon some of the lame debian questions I'll be asking.
> >>>-dh
> 
> 
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