Process select for SuSE 8.2

[Matthew Carpenter]

chkconfig seems to be becoming a CLI standard for checking/changing the
startup status for services as well...


On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 23:05:40 -0700
Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:13:46PM -0600, Myles Green wrote:
> >On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 22:52, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> >> I am looking at an upgrade path from Caldera WS 3.1.1 and have been 
> >> playing with SuSE pro 8.2.  Is there a graphical utility to switch on or 
> >>   off applications at boot time?  Things like Samba or MySQL?  In col 
> >> there was webmin, and kde gave me a way through system settings.  I 
> >> can't find anything similar is SuSE, am I missing something?  If so 
> >> where is it?  (I have read the printed manuals and tried every menu 
> >> option under kde and gnome that root has access to [I think])
> >
> >You mean like YAST (ncurses) or YAST2 (GUI)?
> 
> Actually yast2 works GUI or curses depending on whether there's a DISPLAY
> variable set.  There's also the ``insserv'' program that can be invoked
> from the command line in the /etc/init.d directory.
> 
> System->Runlevel Editor takes you to a GUI where you can enable, disable,
> start, and stop individual services.  This also takes care of dependencies
> so may start more than you asked for.  You may have to scroll down the
> right side of the GUI to see the Runlevel Editor icon.  You will definately
> have to scroll down when using the curses interface.
> 
> Bill
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