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Re: [LUG] server processes

 

On Mon, 19 May 2008 16:21:21 +0100
Steph Foster wrote:

> I found some info at http://zattoo.com/en/download/linux?download=1
> 
> I would expect that there is probably either an executable script or
> a sym link in /etc/rc.d/rc.<whatever runlevel yourein>
> 
> eg If youre in multi user X , perhaps you could check
> in /etc/rc.d/rc.5/
> 
> I thought that Ubuntu had a services app to control what gets started
> in what run levels if you don't want to delve into the dark & murky
> depths of /etc *grin*
> 
> Steph

Ubuntu also takes the Debian approach of having everything in rc.2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_level

Regard.
Grant.


> 
> 
> 
> On 5/19/08, Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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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