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On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:41:21PM -0600, DJ wrote:
I had the same experience with SSL. It was installed. I looked at the doc directory (i.e., SuSE ReadME) and SuSE Help, and I'm left not knowing much more than I did before. I find this very, very frustrating. Each application requires 3+ hours. I'm feel really silly here, because a lot of folks on this list seem to be flying through these installs. Where are you finding the information to start/stop/configure and if there is a SuSE tool to do it or if you have to do it manually?
Everyone has started like you. :) For starting/stopping try typing "rc" (on the commandline and as root) followed by the <tab> key. (lists all the start scripts, they are used with "start", "stop", "status" and so on) To make a service active at each boot, use the command "chkconfig -a <servicename>" or YaST2's runlevel editor. For first information about configuring a service look for the README.SuSE files in the /usr/share/doc/packages/<packagename>/ directories. Or browse through the SuSE help system.
I suspect the man/info packages are not unique to the SuSE distribution, so I really haven't been reading those. I'm trying really hard not to mess-up/break SuSE.
Most man pages are a good source of information. Peter