On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:34:04AM +0200, Schrevel, Milena wrote:
> hello,
Hi Schrevel!
> seaching the web for informations about start-stop-daemon ect i came across
> your homepage. i am new to linux
we call it "GNU/Linux" to recognise the fact that most of the system tools
come from the GNU project, see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html
well, this list is about the GNU OS using the Hurd set of servers,
as distributed by Debian (so little relation with GNU/Linux).
> and cannot find proper information about
> start-stop-daemon. is this specific to debian?
yes, it's part of dpkg.
> is there something similar to
> start-stop-daemon which can be used (i am working under redhat linux 7.2) ?
> if you know anything about this stuff, please give me a hint. thanks.
you could just get dpkg sources from http://packages.debian.org/dpkg and
build start-stop-daemon from them, it's easy:
- untar it (tar -xvzf dpkg[...].tar.gz) and cd to it
- ./configure && make
- find . -name start-stop-daemon
- install -m755 path_to_start-stop-daemon /sbin
but why do you need start-stop-daemon on redhat anyway? of course switching
to debian is a good idea, too :)
--
Robert Millan
"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992