On 8/30/05, Greg Knaddison <greg.knaddison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 8/29/05, Robert Hanson <roberth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > can anyone please comment on the rest of these please? i mean, what is
> some
> > of this unrecognizable stuff??... at least for me eh?
>
>
> chkconfig --list | awk '{print $1}' | man
>
> I know that doesn't work, but my point is: Take the list you made,
> identify the items you don't know, "man" them.
>
> For those that don't make sense, use a search engine to find the home
> page and read about it.
>
> Still lost on some, ask about that remaining list of packages. Asking
> directly may be easier, but it won't help at 3:00 AM when the server
> crashes because rpcsvcgssd is hogging all CPU because it freaked out
> and you don't know if you can shut it off safely...
>
> Regards,
> Greg
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This is a little closer to your intent, Greg:
for daemon in $( chkconfig --list | awk '{print $1}' | sed 's/://' ); do man
$daemon; done
The sed accounts for xinetd services.
Of course, not every daemon has a man page....
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