[NBLUG/talk] The Debian Way

Walter Hansen gandalf at sonic.net
Thu Oct 27 18:15:41 PDT 2005


Is there a way to stop and start services on the fly? Or do I have to do the:

/etc/rc.d/scripts/someservicescript start

Walter - taking notes and printing messaes.

> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 03:21:59PM -0700, Walter Hansen wrote:
> } I'm now starting to get used to the debian world a little bit. I love
> the
> } apt-get. It's a little hard to figure out what to get, but I love it.
>
> synaptic is a nice gui for browsing packages, and it has a
> search feature.
>
> apt-file search
> will search for a file name from within all the available packages,
> so if there is some command you want, it will find the package name.
> Install with "apt-get install apt-file" then run "apt-file update".
>
> apt-cache show <package name>
> shows info on a package.
>
> apt-cache search <thing to search for>
> runs faster than apt-file search and searches the package descriptions.
>
>
> } Also
> } the desktop takes some getting used to, but I've never used it much
> } anyway, so that's probably mostly me(KDE).
>
> So use whatever desktop you want.
>
>
> } I do want to know what sort of mechanism is commonly used for starting
> and
> } stopping services and setting them up for run level. I'm used to the
> } RedHat/Mandrake 'service xxxxx start' and 'chckconfig xxxxx'. Are there
> } similar tools under Debian (shell/desktop)? Should I install tools I'm
> } used to or is it better to learn the Debian way?
>
> I've just been manually making/removing symbolic links.  I won't claim
> it's better, but it works.  chckconfig was nicer, but it's not in debian.
>
>
> --
>
>    E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us
>
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