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On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 08:52 +0100, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 2008 11:03:01 +0100
> Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks for all that info. Mysql was a bad example. I should have
> suggested something like zattoo
There's no such package in Debian, I have no idea how that package is
controlled. As it isn't part of Debian, there is no guarantee that it
will behave as a Debian package should behave - it could have all manner
of weird control systems.
It doesn't want to download from the website either so I can't help.
For a compliant Debian package, in GNOME, you either control background
programs via System->Preferences->Sessions or as root via /etc/init.d/
and invoke-rc.d. Anything else is just not Debian. (Well, maybe 'at' or
'cron' are used too.)
> which I would not want to run very
> often. Rather than have it running in the background all the time I
> would start it up manually whenever I wanted to use it. Is that a
> better example please?
Probably not - you'd have to find out how that package is meant to be
controlled, via /etc/init.d/ or something else.
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