What is it you are looking for.?? /etc/rc.d/rc.local is run on each boot and can have anythink you want added to it.. (just don't start anything that doesn't return the console or you'll have problems, if you need to, add an "&" to the end of the command or you won't boot to a prompt anymore, I fell for that one myself not that long ago, and started wvdial in rc.local and had to boot from my 8.1 CD to get in long enought to add the & to it..)
to start any service like postfix, apache, webmin sshd, samba etc you just need to type: service postfix start replace postfix with whatever service you want, and replace start with stop or reload or restart or status, whatever you need. or you can do it the old way: /etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix start that will work exactly the same. services like pop3, telnet, ftp and similar are all controlled by xinetd (see /etc/xinetd.d/) and xinetd is a service you can start using the methodologies listed above.. for IP address and the like, look in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ in there you will find the files you want, (and just /etc/sysconfig) that should cover most of what you want. I don't use control panel unless I have no alternative. you might look into webmin thought, its very handy. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joris Lammers Sent: Thursday, 3 January 2002 1:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Config files Hello, I just installed Mandrake 8.1 on my computer. Before I used SuSE 7.3 as my Linux OS. SuSE uses /etc/rc.config as a configuration file to setup many features (IP address, whether or not to allow telnet/ftp-server, enabling IP-forwarding, ...). Some of these things can be configured via the Control Center but how can I adjust these parameters manually? Can I find an overview of the config files used by Mandrake somewhere (on the web, in the included docs)??? Thanks, Joris
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