Noobie Slackware Questions
I've recently put Slackware on my 500mhz machine just to see what all the hype was about.
First off, I'm not too familiar with the BSD style system initilization files but it seems pretty straight forward. As I understand it, anything in /etc/rc.d with execute permissions is automagically started at boot. After the install I ran a portscan to see what services where listening. Much to my dismay things like finger and talk were running. I didn't find any rc.finger or rc.talk in /etc/rc.d but I did manage to find them in /etc/inetd.conf. I was able to comment out those lines and restart rc.inetd which worked. Now I still have some services running that I'm not too sure about. In the /etc/inetd.conf their is a section that says this: Code:
#Ident service is used for net authentication Also while running a port scan I find this service: Code:
587/tcp open submission Secondly, I was wondering about package management. In redhat I would do: Code:
rpm -qa | grep <packagename> Code:
qpkg -I | grep <packagename> Now I'm not very sure about the installpkg command either. This command only works on slackpacks correct? I'm also missing a few key command for X such as xset. On slackware.com I read this: Quote:
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swaret --search xset I know that their are a lot of questions in here but I figured instead of reading over tons of docs at slackware.com(which I've found to be outdated) I'd come right to the source where all you slackers live. Thanks in advance. P.S. This will most likely not be my last Slackware question thread...so many questions |
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X is simple to configure anyway |
Okay thanks for your response. The reason I asked about xset was because my mouse speed is very slow. I am used to just doing something like:
xset m 4 5 yet their does not seem to be an xset for slackware. How do you change your mouse speed? |
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not present you must have manually deleted it :) XF86Setup doesn't seem to be part of XFree anymore. However, there's xf86cfg if it HAS to be graphical. Cheers, Tink |
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