On Fri,26.Jun.09, 20:30:37, Allen Kenner wrote: > > In SUSE, I'd use YAST2 and open the Runlevel editor so I could set up > what I wanted as far as running processes, and shut off servers I didn't > need running. In Slackware I just didn't set up many by default and only > started what I wanted, but on Debian, what are the tools available for this? Maybe I don't understand exactly what you are trying to achieve, but it seems to me like you want different "profiles" depending on what you want your machine to be doing. The traditional unix mechanism for this are the runlevels. It may not be obvious to you (coming from other distros), but Debian does *not* customize the runlevels 2 to 5, they are left for you (the system administrator) to configure as needed. What I'd do is use a runlevel editor (I prefer sysv-rc-conf) and customize the runlevels 2 to 5 to suit my different scenarios and then just use 'init <new-runlevel>' to switch between them. If you only want to start/stop one service at a time just use the initscript: /etc/init.d/vsftpd stop HTH, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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