On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:34:04AM +0200, Schrevel, Milena wrote: > hello,
Hi Schrevel! > seaching the web for informations about start-stop-daemon ect i came across > your homepage. i am new to linux we call it "GNU/Linux" to recognise the fact that most of the system tools come from the GNU project, see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html well, this list is about the GNU OS using the Hurd set of servers, as distributed by Debian (so little relation with GNU/Linux). > and cannot find proper information about > start-stop-daemon. is this specific to debian? yes, it's part of dpkg. > is there something similar to > start-stop-daemon which can be used (i am working under redhat linux 7.2) ? > if you know anything about this stuff, please give me a hint. thanks. you could just get dpkg sources from http://packages.debian.org/dpkg and build start-stop-daemon from them, it's easy: - untar it (tar -xvzf dpkg[...].tar.gz) and cd to it - ./configure && make - find . -name start-stop-daemon - install -m755 path_to_start-stop-daemon /sbin but why do you need start-stop-daemon on redhat anyway? of course switching to debian is a good idea, too :) -- Robert Millan "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5" Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
