Gentoo: start / stop services

Adony · 12-09-2004, 10:12 PM

Hi there!

To see the status of my services i just do
#rc-status -a

That's ok ...
But if i want to add a service, lets say foo to a runlevel; who can i do this??

And also if i want to start foo just this time and the stop it when i no longer need it how can i do that??

Thanks in advance!

dalek · 12-10-2004, 12:29 AM

rc-update add <service> <runlevel> example:

Code:

rc-update add cups default

That will add cups to the default runlevel.

That help?

acid_kewpie · 12-10-2004, 02:09 AM

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To see the status of my services i just do
#rc-status -a

why did I not nkow this?? cool!

dalek · 12-10-2004, 06:43 AM

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Originally posted by acid_kewpie
why did I not nkow this?? cool!

There seems to be a lot of things in Gentoo that are so cool but seldom known. I'm with you on that one. I didn't know that one either. That is way better than doing /etc/init.d/<service> status for each individual one too. That is especially true when you have at least 70 like on mine. That could take a while.

Learn something new everyday, I usually forget a couple too.

Later

comprookie2000 · 12-10-2004, 08:56 AM

An easy one for me to remember rc-update show.

Adony · 12-10-2004, 09:39 AM

Thanks a lot !

I am glad that i have given some "knowledge" back