Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 14:13 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: >> Michael Satterwhite wrote: >>> After the problems I had with Fedora Core 6, I installed Fedora Core 5 >>> when I tried again. It seems to be working. I'm sure I'm going to have >>> some questions as I switch from Ubuntu to Fedora. >>> >>> Question 1: >>> Most of the distributions I've used bring up a service (MySQL, Samba, >>> etc) when I install it. Fedora doesn't. Is there a tool for this, or do >>> I drop back to raw mode as if I compiled them? e.g. how do I bring up >>> MySQL and Samba. >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> ---Michael >>> >> as root >> >> chkconfig mysqld on >> chkconfig smbd on >> >> will enable these services to start at boot. >> >> man chkconfig >> >> or use System -> Administration -> Server Settings -> Services in Gnome > ---- > that would work IF you installed mysql server package... > > rpm -qa|grep mysql > > if you don't see mysql-server package, then you have to install it... > > yum install mysql-server I did install it - and I thank you for the rpm command for checking it! While learning the ins and outs of a new distro, it never bothers me when people assume I don't know something ... they're frequently going to be right. Thanks again. ---Michael -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
