Managing services

From: Fabrício Santos (fabricio.santos_at_quicknet.nl)
Date: 03/30/04

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    Viva a todos,

    Since at install time of my FC1 I did a pretty dumb instalation, Apache and
    Samba were not automatically configured to start at boot up and I have done
    it manually after. What I did was going to /etc/rc3.d and issued the
    following command:

       ln -s /etc/init.d/httpd S35httpd

    Now I have a couple of questions and a couple of assumptions that I believe
    true but am not sure about. So answers to my questions or links to further
    reading will be most welcome.

    1. service command.

    I know a service in /etc/init.d (or /etc/rc.d/init.d/) may be started using
    the service command but I couldn't find any proper docs on it. No man page
    available. No --help switch available. Only the following is displayed when
    the command is run:

       Usage: service < option > | --status-all | [ service_name [ command
    | --full-restart ] ]

    Are there any more extensive docs to this utility?

    2. /etc/rcX.d

    Inside the rcX.d directories, there are files named K99servicename and
    S99servicename. I supose the K stands for Kill at reboot or halt time, and S
    stands for Start at bootup time. Then the numbers are just a way of sorting
    the way the services are started or stopped. Is this correct? Where can I
    learn more on these matters?

    3. ln -s /etc/init.d/httpd S35httpd

    Is there any FC1 text based utility that may create these links
    automatically instead of forcing the way manually like I did?

    Thanks for your help!

    -fs 

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