On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, John Wolford wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Are you comfortable doing a little work from the command line interface? Fire up a
>konsole, switch
> user to root (if you're not root already), and then you can configure it a few
>different ways. So
> go like this:
well, i've been using unix since 1978, so i'm not afraid of the command
line, no :)
> 1. Get to a command line: open a console, etc
>
> 2. Change to root if you're not already root:
> [john@homer john]$ su
> Password:
> [root@homer john]#
>
> 3. You can activate it with chkconfig. Read the manpage and then it will go
>something like this,
> as an example:
> [root@homer john]# chkconfig smb on
> [root@homer john]#
>
> 4. You can also fire up a menu-based configuration utility, ntsysv:
> [root@homer john]# ntsysv
>
> I don't use linuxconf, so i can't help you with why it's not working. But neither of
>the methods i
> just mentioned has EVER failed me.
>
> As for multiple instances of a service being listed, i know that the services that
>are
> started/stopped are all in various subdirectories of /etc/rc.d - for example the
>services that are
> started up when you have your box to boot into X automatically (runlevel 5) are
>located in
> /etc/rc.d/rc5.d (hence the runlevel 5). Those with an S get started when that
>particular runlevel
> is started, and those with a K get killed when that particular runlevel is started.
i'll take a look at ntsysv, thanks...
