Recently, somebody somewhere said:

> ->8) All in all, this looks very much like Mandrake.

> ->Elx starts every imaginable daemon, including webmin and portmapper
> ->and mysql.  I'll have to
> *** Yep, that looks much like Mandrake (a.k.a. Red Hat :-). With the
> slight difference that Mandrake 8.1 asks what daemons you want to start at
> boot before finishing the install. That is an advance in some respect. Elx
> sounds to me as pre Mandrake 8.1, where the so called novice distributions
> would start the most obscure and unnecessary daemons so the newbies could
> be more easily hacked...

Mandrake (and afaik Red Hat) supply ntsysv, which is a console based program 
which offers you a choice of daemons to start with init; you can get in and 
simply hack the list to suit yourself. Then it works. No effort. There's even 
an explanation of what they do.

-- 
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        Declan Moriarty




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