[plug] proper way to turn init services on/off

[Brian Tombleson]

try ..

$ telinit q

- Brian.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Holland" <myk at golden.wattle.id.au>
To: "Perth Linux User Group" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 10:40 AM
Subject: [plug] proper way to turn init services on/off


> In the "there must be a better way ..." category:
> 
> Normal daemons can be stopped and started using the /etc/rc.d/init/
> scripts. But what about services run from /etc/inittab?
>    I want to be able to stop and start daemons such as mgetty (for faxes)
> without manually editing /etc/inittab, and kill -1 1 every time.
>   Is there a good utility for this? Pref. common to all distro's.
> 
> -- 
> Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
>                           --==--
>     I had no shoes and I pitied myself.  Then I met a man who had no
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> 
>