During the installation of Slackware 10.0, I remember a part where
you select which services should be started at bootup (mysql,
sendmail, syslog etc.)

Can this part of setup be run independently like, say, xwmconfig? If so,
what's the name of the program?

TIA

John, nice question!

there is a way to achieve this on any version of slackware ...

login as root, then go to /etc/rc.d/

list the contents of the directory as: ls -l

you will see which services are being started at boottime, how? see the
green ones, those scripts with executable bit on (rwxr-xr-x) all those
x means that the file has executable properties, if you change this to
non executable the script is not run at startup then the service won't
be available...

The same theory works otherwise, the files that has (rwxr--r--) are
readable but not executable...

So to select which services do you want to run at
boottime just add executable permission to the script with the service
name..

Example:

-rw-r--r-- rc.samba
-rwxr-xr-x rc.sendmail*
-rwxr-xr-x rc.sshd*

i have sendmail & secure shell daemon starting at boot time, but samba
is not...

Well i do this:
root@server:/etc/rc.d# chmod 755 rc.samba
<enter>
after doing ls -l again:

-rwxr-xr-x rc.samba*
-rwxr-xr-x rc.sendmail*
-rwxr-xr-x rc.sshd*

see? now samba is going to start automatically at boot time... also
note that little asterisk next to the name of file (that is a visual
help telling you that the file is excutable)..

This a little way around your situation, hope this helps a little, and
good luck

John Phillips wrote :
>
> Can this part of setup be run independently like, say, xwmconfig? If so,
> what's the name of the program?

As root run 'pkgtool' and choose "Setup", now you can scroll down to
"Services" and here you'll find the possibility to stop/start services.
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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:52:45 +0000, John Phillips wrote:

> During the installation of Slackware 10.0, I remember a part where
> you select which services should be started at bootup (mysql,
> sendmail, syslog etc.)
>
> Can this part of setup be run independently like, say, xwmconfig? If so,
> what's the name of the program?
>
> TIA

try /var/log/setup/setup.services

John Phillips <jp@nospam.com> writes:

> During the installation of Slackware 10.0, I remember a part where
> you select which services should be started at bootup (mysql,
> sendmail, syslog etc.)
>
> Can this part of setup be run independently like, say, xwmconfig? If so,
> what's the name of the program?

Hi John

In a terminal, as root, run

#pkgtool

that will give you a menu

select "setup" and there you are

hth





Glyn
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