Re: Master configuration file for services?

[Harald Hoyer <harald redhat com>]

Keith Roberts wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>
> > To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> >     <fedora-test-list redhat com>
> > From: Michal Jaegermann <michal harddata com>
> > Subject: Re: Master configuration file for services?
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 04:20:30PM +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to have one master configuration file
> > > that is read on boot time to determine which system services
> > > are run please?
> >
> > You mean that you want something like system-config-services?
> > Did you try that one?
> >
> > > I'm having to spend ages on disabling services with
> > > chkconfig <sname> off.
> >
> > If you are doing that from a command line then check something
> > of that sort
> >
> > echo "service1
> > service2
> > service3" | xargs -n1 -i chkconfig {} off
> >
> > or you may feed xargs redirecting stdin from a file with names
> > one per line.
> >
> > The later you can modify using a file with lines like
> > "serviceA on" and "serviceB off" and use that with
> > "xargs -n2 -i chkconfig {}" to have your master configuration.
> >
> >   Michal
>
> Thankyou for that Michal. I will take a look at xargs.
>
> What's the service setup tool that runs with firstboot? Can I not use 
> that at will from the CLI?
>
> Regards
>
> Keith
>
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