On Thu, 22 May 2008 20:15:39 +0200 Attila <attila@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2008 17:07 Nigel Henry wrote: > > > On my Fedora installs there is a GUI for stopping and starting > > services, and also the option of using chkconfig on the CLI. On my > > Debian installs, I installed sysv-rc-conf, which runs on the CLI, > > and allows you to stop and start services. > > I can understand your feelings because as i start using archlinux i > search a tool as chkconfig too but i recognized that such a tool is > not really necessary. > > So why do i think this? The equipollent of "chkconfig --list | grep > '3:on'" is the DAEMONS array in the rc.conf and the equipollent of > the status of the running daemons ist the content of /var/run/daemons > (kdm is not there but it have a pid file). > > The only thing what i miss is that "chkconfig --list" shows me the > x(inet) lines too but this is not so much necessary for archlinux > from my view. > > In my case i must say that the most what i have missed at the > beginning has more to do with myself and what i have used before than > with archlinux. Perhaps this helps you too. > > See you, Attila > > I've wrote a quick and dirty implementation of a tool for starting/stopping services and listing their status. It's quite simple tho, since it's just something I wrote to see if I remembered shell scripting...... http://arch.har-ikkje.net/scripts/daemon-0.5.sh
