Master configuration file for services?

[Harald Hoyer]

Keith Roberts wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> 
>> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>>     <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
>> From: Michal Jaegermann <michal at 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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GUI: system-config-services
TUI: /usr/sbin/ntsysv