On Tuesday 25 December 2001 05:42 am, you wrote: > 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.
Yes, nysysv and appropriate man entries are available on elx, too. Thanks, Collins _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
