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02-13-2002, 11:20 AM

I hate Internet Explorer. I just had this long ass post written out, accidentally hit Backspace when I wasn't in the text box and now it's gone.

To recap: Linuxconf is cool but can be a pain in the ass.

Kudzu didn't like my KVM and wanted to reinstall the mouse every time I booted, so I disabled it.

The proper way to disable a service on Red Hat is to use the chkconfig program - i.e., become root with its environment set up (su -) and run

chkconfig sendmail off
chkconfig kudzu off

The proper way to kill/restart/stop a service is via the "service" command -

service sendmail restart
service sshd stop

I was delighted when I found these things out - I used to manually rename the init scripts for services and when I wanted to stop other ones, I'd issue a command like

/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S10network restart

but just doing "service network restart" is much easier.

Many people don't know about those commands, so I thought I'd go ahead and toss 'em out there.

02-13-2002, 11:20 AM	#11
dave Guest Posts: n/a	I hate Internet Explorer. I just had this long ass post written out, accidentally hit Backspace when I wasn't in the text box and now it's gone. To recap: Linuxconf is cool but can be a pain in the ass. Kudzu didn't like my KVM and wanted to reinstall the mouse every time I booted, so I disabled it. The proper way to disable a service on Red Hat is to use the chkconfig program - i.e., become root with its environment set up (su -) and run chkconfig sendmail off chkconfig kudzu off The proper way to kill/restart/stop a service is via the "service" command - service sendmail restart service sshd stop I was delighted when I found these things out - I used to manually rename the init scripts for services and when I wanted to stop other ones, I'd issue a command like /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S10network restart but just doing "service network restart" is much easier. Many people don't know about those commands, so I thought I'd go ahead and toss 'em out there.