Re: [newbie] Starting and stopping services.
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 08:40:57PM -0500, Lloyd wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to use the './' in front of the names of the files because /etc/rc.d/init.d is not part of your PATH. (echo $PATH to see what it IS set to). You'll find the dot-slash comes in handy. The other time you'll want to use it is if you want to execute a file in the directory you're currently in rather than a file of the same name that is in the PATH. For example, say you're installing a new version of Netscape and you want to make sure it works before deleting the old one. You simply 'cd' to the new directory, do ./netscape, and it'll run that copy. If you just typed 'netscape', it would probably run the old copy in /usr/bin or /usr/X11R6/bin. Hope that explanation helps! It does! I've been wondering about that myself. What does rc.d and init.d mean Just guessing here, since I don't think I've ever seen a "real" definition for them, but I'd imagine that 'rc.d' means resource configuration directory and 'init.d' means initialization directory. Again, just a guess. The whole thing is just a path to follow to get to the files that are contained in the directory /etc/rc.d/init.d/ -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Starting and stopping services.
Gene Tsygan wrote: Hi, everybody! According to materials I read, one of the great things about Linux is that it does not need to be rebooted in order to apply configuration changes. Stopping and restarting the affected services is adequate. Can you tell me how to do it? What should I type to stop and restart services like httpd, smbd, etc. One thing I tried which works sometimes is to log in again as root. Run the command ps ax. This gives a list of all running processes, each of which has a PID number (Process Id) When you decide what you want to stop, type kill pid number. Type the actual number with no quotes, like kill 247. Hope this helps. Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Starting and stopping services.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 01:15:45PM -0400, Gene Tsygan wrote: Thanks for the help. Since this is a "newbie" list I will allow myself another stupid question. Why should I use " ./ " before the file name? (Also thanks to Nick Kay for the answering my question) Gene You need to use the './' in front of the names of the files because /etc/rc.d/init.d is not part of your PATH. (echo $PATH to see what it IS set to). You'll find the dot-slash comes in handy. The other time you'll want to use it is if you want to execute a file in the directory you're currently in rather than a file of the same name that is in the PATH. For example, say you're installing a new version of Netscape and you want to make sure it works before deleting the old one. You simply 'cd' to the new directory, do ./netscape, and it'll run that copy. If you just typed 'netscape', it would probably run the old copy in /usr/bin or /usr/X11R6/bin. Hope that explanation helps! It does! I've been wondering about that myself. What does rc.d and init.d mean -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
