On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 21:43, Stuart Jansen wrote:
> In Gnome, under
> Red Hat Menu > System Settings > Server Settings > Services
> you will find a very nice gui. KDE should have something in a roughly
> similar spot. Now for some background.
Just a word of caution, though. It is a bad idea to disable mail
handling on a linux system. Although your machine will continue to
function just fine, many subsystems including cron and others mail their
output to root so that you can check the status of your system from time
to time. One job in particular, "logwatch" analyzes your log files and
e-mails suspicious things to root. This can be a good tool that you
loose if you turn mail completely off. I would consider switching to
postfix as has been suggested. If you haven't modified your sendmail
configuration since you installed, then you can just run the redhat
switcher program and turn on postfix and run it without tweaking it's
configuration either.
Michael
>
> On a Red Hat based system, there's two major "run levels". Run level 3
> is a fully usable server with command line only. Run level 5 is
> basically run level 3 with X added. Run level 6 is reboot. Run level 0
> is low level system maintence ("single user") mode.
>
> Make sure you're editing run level 5, and make sure you save your
> changes.
>
> All your boot scripts are in /etc/init.d
> Each run level is represented by /etc/rc#.d
> The run level directories contain symbolic links to the start and stop
> scripts. chkconfig is command line program often used to maintain
> installing, enabling, and disabling scripts. Whether you choose to use
> the GUI, chkconfig, or modify the scripts and symbolic links yourself,
> it's all about the same.
>
> Debian has slightly different run levels. Gentoo has replaced run levels
> with something cooler but slightly slower. *BSD has no concept of run
> levels, and in my opinion suffers because of it. There's been talk of
> overhauling the whole Linux startup process, but not much has happened
> yet. And I'm sure this is more than you wanted to know.
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Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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