Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:


> 
> 
> So would I just put a K in front of any service that I don't want to 
> run?
> 

When I first started to play with Linux (RedHat) I didn't "get" 
chkconfig either. Any service you don't want to run on a RedHat (and I 
assume any RedHat based/derived system) can be easily changed by 
changing the "S" to "s". At least on a RH system only links starting 
with a capital "S" will actually be started. Doing this allows you to 
see what you have disabled in any particular runlevel by going into that 
rc*.d startup directory.

chkconfig is a pretty good tool :)

> 
>>So for any given runlevel it's pretty easy to see which services
>>will be started or stopped just by looking at the symlinks.  There
>>shouldn't be any need to add or delete a bunch of symlinks unless
>>you want to change what services are run by default in a particular
>>runlevel.

> 
> I don't want them running. I was worried that they would run unless I 
> did something to stop them.
> 
> 
>>and if you 
>>need to start one of them up, its easy enough to just change
>>directories to /etc/init.d/ and run the startup script, usually
>>something like: ./servicename start should be all you need to do
>>get start a specific service running (at any runlevel).
> 
> 
> That's good to know.


> 
> 
> Hmmmmm.....
> 
> People on this list have asked me how I can use Slackware when I'm so 
> commandline-challenged and such a slow learner. I think it's because 
> it's so simple and logical, and I'm just too dumb to use any of the 
> "easier" distros :-p
> 
> Siri Amrit
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