handling services without linuxconf

[Craig White]

Armand wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:50:22PM -0800, Eric wrote:
> > What is the best way to manage services without using Linuxconf.  It is my
> > understanding that Linuxconf is being phased out in Red Hat, and I've heard
> > lots of security-types badmouth it.
> >
> > Specifically what I want to be able to do is control whether Samba starts at
> > boot, whether Apache does, cron, and so on.
> >
> You need to edit /etc/inetd.conf
> 
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Actually RedHat 7.x uses xinetd

you can edit files in /etc/xinetd.d/

or

you can use chkconfig

try chkconfig -l  (list services)

man chkconfig (commands)

chkconfig --add [service]

chkconfig --levels [2345] [service] on/off

I personally like webmin <http://www.webmin.com>

Craig