Re: services starting

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

kimbrough gray wrote:
>  a few years ago I installed redhat and it seemed that all the services 
> started automatically
>
> after I installed apache was up and running
>
> now when I installed nothing started up ftp or httpd
>
> and I had to go in and start those manually
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows when this started
>
> during the install is there a way to say start my services automatically

After installation, run "ntsysv" as root, turn on the services you want,
then reboot.

FTP, apache, telnet, and a huge amount of stuff is disabled now by
default for security reasons.  You turn them on at your own risk
(early versions of WU-FTP have all kinds of security holes, for
example).

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