[arch-general] Tool to stop and start services? (Don't Panic)

[Øyvind Heggstad]

On Thu, 22 May 2008 20:15:39 +0200
Attila <attila at 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