Control one service: Dialog

Next Previous Contents

## 2. Dialog

For each service, a dialog presents various information and let you do few operations. Here is a description.

## 2.1 Automatic startup

When enabled, the service will be start at boot time and Linuxconf will make sure the service is running (and up to date) whenever you quit or activate changes.

## 2.2 Status

This reports if the service is currently running.

## 2.3 Description

This provides a small introduction to the service. This is extracted from the startup script (/etc/rc.d/init.d/"service-name").

## 2.4 Package name

Linuxconf tries to associate the service to the package providing it. It does that by querying a package manager module (a Linuxconf module). This module (for RPM packages, it is called managerpm) may or may not be installed.

## 2.5 Package version

If the service can be associated with a package, its version is reported.

## 2.6 Operations

Beside enabling or disabling a service, you can do other operation on it from this dialog.

### Start

This starts the service and updates its status. You can start a service manually even if it is not configured for automatic startup.

### Stop

This stops the service and updates its status. You can stop a service manually even if it is configured for automatic startup. Note that Linuxconf will try to start it whenever you activate some changes.

### Restart

This performs a stop and a start on the service.

### Status

This reports various informations about the service. This prints the output of the command

> `

>             /etc/rc.d/init.d/SERVICE status

> `

### Pkg info

If a package manager is installed and the service can be associated to a package, you can get more information about the package. You can also UN-install the package right from this dialog.

Next Previous Contents