Neal Becker wrote:
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On Monday 17 May 2004 11:23 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
Neal Becker wrote:
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I'm a long-time Redhat user, but new to suse. To start/stop a service on Redhat/Fedora, there is a command /sbin/service. What is the equivalent on Suse? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)
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"chkconfig <service> off" if you need to permanently disable it. Regards Sid.
So, how do I enable, for example, telnet? On Redhat, you can do that with chkconfig. That is, chkconfig handles both long-running services started via /etc/init.d, as well as those started via xinetd. Is there something like this for Suse?
To start a service immediately and for the current session only, "/etc/init.d/<service> start" or "rc<service> start", "ls -l /sbin/rc*" will show you the symlinks SuSE sets up. If you want to make it permanent on startup, then "chkconfig <service> on". Caution:- Page 400 of the User Guide warns of the dangers of using telnet and it's not installed by default, ssh is a safer as anyone snooping on your telnet session will see your passwords in plain text as you type it in. Many years ago I sat horrified as I watched while a friend was configuring my Linux box using telnet (before the days of ssh) over hamradio - my root password was there for all radio amateurs to see and use. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.