Re: [newbie] Starting and stopping services.

1999-04-09 Thread sphilp
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

Re: [newbie] Starting and stopping services.

1999-04-08 Thread Lloyd
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

Re: [newbie] Starting and stopping services.

1999-04-08 Thread Lloyd
[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)