I'm using SuSE 9 professional (Im new to suse and fairly new on linux). I have the following "problem": The screensaver configuration never survives boot so I never get the screensaver but just a black screen. When I enter the configuration window in kde, it always tells me that the screensaver deamon is not running and that if I would like to start it now! I always say yes, then the screensaver starts normaly after the specified time but the changes never remain after booting, why?. Just as a general question deriving from the previous, I would like to know how can you control which procesess or services are activated on boot and how to keep them running. Im trying to configure nfs as well but portmap (needed) and other services appear to be "sleeping". How can I change that "sleeping" to "running"? . Thanks a lot (Im still reading about SuSE firewall ;-) Felipe.
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 01:56:06PM +0100, felipe@uni-duisburg.de wrote:
Just as a general question deriving from the previous, I would like to know how can you control which procesess or services are activated on boot and how to keep them running. Im trying to configure nfs as well but portmap (needed) and other services appear to be "sleeping". How can I change that "sleeping" to "running"? .
"Sleeping" means "waiting for something to do". It *is* "running" (by your definition), but there's nothing for it to do. Most processes will be in this state. "Running" (as far as Linux is concerned) means either actually being on the CPU *now*, or waiting to go on the CPU when its timeslice becomes available[1]. The processes which are started at bootup can be chosen in YaST (I can't remember which option, but it's something like "enable/disable network services), and here you can enable 'portmap'. However, it looks like it's already enabled anyway. For your NFS problem, tell us what you've done, and any error messages you've got, and then we might be able to help. Try to NFS-mount an exported directory back onto the machine itself - this might get around any firewall problems. HTH... [1] I'm not sure that this definition of "running" is absolutely correct for Linux, since it seems to change between versions of UNIX, but it's good enough. -- David Smith Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2
The Monday 2003-11-24 at 13:56 +0100, Felipe Leon wrote:
Just as a general question deriving from the previous, I would like to know how can you control which procesess or services are activated on boot and how to keep them running.
Yast, runlevel properties or roundabout. Or manually, "chkconfig". Read "man init.d", and "the SuSE boot concept" on the admin book.
Im trying to configure nfs as well but portmap (needed) and other services appear to be "sleeping". How can I change that "sleeping" to "running"? .
Configure network through Yast first. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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