On 8.10.2009 10:28, Martin Schmidkunz wrote:

Hi,

while testing the latest webYaST appliance (0.0.10), which runs nice and smoothly so far, I was puzzled by two modules: System Services and Custom Service. What is the difference between those two modules? And what is the reason, why they are separated? Because to me, as a Newbie, both modules basically set up some services.

Actually Florian has already asked this question, here my reply: Custom service -------------- It is a special view in the service module (see later), it provides a possibility to define start/stop control for a custom service (a third party application, e.g. a database server). The vendor defines what should be called to start/stop the service. The customization is stored in /etc/YaST2/custom_services.yml file. Example: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # This is an example of how could the configuration file for custom services # look like. # # It is a map of type # # service name: # description: Enhanced description of the service # start: path to application that should start the service # stop: path to application that should stop the service # status: path to application that should query the service status # # The file needs to be located under /etc/YaST2/. # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # # The list of services that could be operated by webYaST services module. # Add only name of service if there is /etc/init.d/<service-name> available. # Otherwise, provide also service description and paths to start, stop and # status scripts. collectd: description: Statistics Collection Daemon for filling RRD Files start: "/usr/sbin/rccollectd start" stop: "/usr/sbin/rccollectd stop" # status: "/usr/sbin/rccollectd status" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- System Services ---------------- No config possible, it just displays the basic system services like ntp, network, alsa, firewall, dbus... It displays the current status (running/not running) and allows to start/stop a service. Pretty simple... -- Best Regards Ladislav Slezák Yast Developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: lslezak@suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 960 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org