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

[Nigel Henry]

On Thursday 22 May 2008 17:09, Travis Willard wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Nigel Henry
>
> <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> 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.
> >
> > Is there anything similar that I could use on my Archlinux install?
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
>
> I can't recall any such tool offhand, though the discussion certainly
> has come up before.  What's wrong with /etc/rc.d/service stop and
> /etc/rc.d/service start?

Johannes also suggests this way, and I have no problems with it, but sometimes 
it's just nice to have a list of running services, maybe just to see if there 
is some service you don't need, and to be able to stop it.

A couple of suggestions on later posts have suggested packages available in 
AUR. I'll have a look at these. I was sort of thinking of new users, that may 
have been used to GUI stuff. A command on the CLI to bring up something using 
dialog, whiptail, or ncurses would also work, as you get a GUI of sorts.

Also, sometimes it's not easy to know the name of a service. For example, you 
want to stop the ntp service. Do you stop ntp, or ntpd, and with ssh. Is this 
ssh, or sshd. I know you can try both, but a list of running services helps.

This is just a little academic question so please don't be offended. 

All in all I'm very pleased with Archlinux (Don't Panic). I have a bunch of 
distros installed, Fedora, Debian, Kubuntu, Slackware, but none of them boot 
up as quick as my Archlinux install. Any suggestions as to what may be 
different from my other installs, that causes Archlinux to boot up so 
quickly?

Nigel.