How to control Ubuntu’s Services easily?
September 30th, 2007 | by TualatriX |
I try to find some applications in order to control Ubuntu’s services easily, but no one is satisfied to me.
Services of Ubuntu itself
The first application of services control is “System”->”Administrator”->”Services”:
Although it can control the main services(totaly 23 services), but the services and startup-scripts in my system’s number is 93(/etc/init.d/)! Among them there are 35 items in the runlevel-2(/etc/rc2.d).
How can I use “Services” to control a service such as Tor? I’ve no idea.
bootup-manager
bootup-manager(bum) is another tool for controlling system services.
It is better than “Services” , because it found the Tor, the Vboxnet and so on.
But it is also not complete.
rcconf
It seems that the bum is the GUI interface of rcconf. I found there are almost the same.
So…I think bum is better than rcconf, just because it’s GUI tool.
sysv-rc-conf
It is really a good tools! You can use it to control almost all services, and you can change the runlevel of them whatever you like.
But the problem is: it is based on the command line and text mode, has few help information. It’s hard to normal user and beginner. Isn’t it?
If it has more information of every service, I think it will be better.
At the end, I have a idea.If there is a GUI interface of the sysv-rc-conf with a lot information/help of every service, it may be fit for beginners.
Tags: bootup-manager, rcconf, services, sysv-rc-conf, ubuntu
4 Responses to “How to control Ubuntu’s Services easily?”
By Mr. Dreadsoft on Oct 1, 2007 | Reply
I’m writing a working PHP-GTK example on how to interact with sysv-rc-conf. You can see a screenshot here
http://img265.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot1gx3.png
Right now it’s read-only
By Fernando on Dec 5, 2007 | Reply
Thank you for the info!
By john on Jun 12, 2008 | Reply
For the command line the standard command to control services on Ubuntu since, Ubuntu v6.10 (Edgy Eft) is
initctl
see
http://www.linux.com/articles/57213
for how to use it.
For background See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue13
http://www.linux.com/feature/57213
If you install sysvinit it will install an alternative init daemon on your system system that has problems and has been abandon in favor of the upstart daemon by Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo and SUSE.
It is not just an interface.
If you are new to linux learn initctl and upstart. If you are acustom to the old sysvinit from what I understand it will coexist with upstart with no errors as long as you don’t create conflicting configurations using but you eventually will have to learn upstart and along with it initctl.
initctl is not so bad and works fine but it’s not well documented. The above article (first link) will fill the woeful gaps in the initctl man page!