[Cialug]debian services

[D. Joe Anderson]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 09:46:17AM -0600, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 08:35 -0600, Dan Hockey wrote:
> > I would like to list and start/stop services in sarge. I'm used to doing 
> > things the mdk kde drakxconf way.
> > -dh
> 
> I'm not aware of a way to list the services except 
> $ ls /etc/init.d/ or $ ps of course. 

apt-get install rcconf

# rcconf

pulls up a curses-based menu of services that one can configure
to start or not start.  It won't turn them off, though, you've
got to do that as below
 
> start, stop, reload, restart services:
> # /etc/init.d/foo (start|stop|reload|restart)
> 
> I rarely, if ever, have used a GUI for this so someone else may help 
> more in that area.

I see things like ksysv in the lists of available packages, but
haven't used any of them.  

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