[opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Jason Craig
Sorry, I've been struggling to find any information on this, mainly because it is difficult to find proper search terms. Say I've installed some software, like PostgreSQL, that adds a beautiful script to /etc/init.d/ that starts or stops the server. Now I want to start the server in, say runl

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Sloan
Jason Craig wrote: > Sorry, I've been struggling to find any information on this, mainly > because it is difficult to find proper search terms. > > Say I've installed some software, like PostgreSQL, that adds a > beautiful script to /etc/init.d/ that starts or stops the server. Now > I want to sta

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread K.R. Foley
Jason Craig wrote: > Sorry, I've been struggling to find any information on this, mainly > because it is difficult to find proper search terms. > > Say I've installed some software, like PostgreSQL, that adds a beautiful > script to /etc/init.d/ that starts or stops the server. Now I want to > st

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Mandag 26 november 2007 21:06 skrev Jason Craig: > Sorry, I've been struggling to find any information on this, mainly > because it is difficult to find proper search terms. > > Say I've installed some software, like PostgreSQL, that adds a beautiful > script to /etc/init.d/ that starts or stops th

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Jason Craig
Sloan wrote: Jason Craig wrote: Sorry, I've been struggling to find any information on this, mainly because it is difficult to find proper search terms. Say I've installed some software, like PostgreSQL, that adds a beautiful script to /etc/init.d/ that starts or stops the server. Now I wan

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Sloan
Jason Craig wrote: > Sloan wrote: >> Jason Craig wrote: >> >>> Sorry, I've been struggling to find any information on this, mainly >>> because it is difficult to find proper search terms. >>> >>> Say I've installed some software, like PostgreSQL, that adds a >>> beautiful script to /etc/init.d/ t

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Myrosia Dzikovska
> I'd put it somewhere late in the runlevel sequence of events. Like, say 30 or > so. On my SLES10 it's killed as no 10 and started as no 12. > > As root, goto /etc/init.d/rc3.d and do: > > ln -s ../postgresql S30postgresql > > Symlinks preceded by an "S" starts stuff. "K" kills stuff. See "man ini

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Jason Craig
Sloan wrote: Jason Craig wrote: Sloan wrote: Thanks, I forgot to mention that the main idea was that I couldn't use YaST in this particular context. How odd - I'd love to know what context that might be (boggle). In any case, you can use one of the commands mentioned. Joe

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread jdd
Jason Craig wrote: but the YaST control center does not have all the same modules that are available on my desktop, System Services being one that is missing. are you root? Also, YaST has (during attempts of usage of the "Software Management" module) overgrown my limited free memory resourc

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Sloan
Jason Craig wrote: > My playground VPS allowed me to choose from a pretty significant list > of operating systems, and I decided to run SUSE to see how it behaved > in a server environment. I haven't figured out why yet (I assume it > has something to do with how the VPS is set up and administered

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Ortwin Ebhardt
Hello, Say I've installed some software, like PostgreSQL, that adds a beautiful script to /etc/init.d/ that starts or stops the server. Now I want to start the server in, say runlevel 3, so I know I need to add links to /etc/init.d/rc3.d/ but I'm having trouble finding information on the proper

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Sloan
Ortwin Ebhardt wrote: > Well, as for YaST I think there are some reasons why someone wants to > avoid it; if I want to change something quick, I usually don't start > YaST as I am to impatient to wait for it to complete. (insserv mostly > does the job and is much quicker.) Another reason could be a

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Jason Craig
Sorry, didn't send to list --- Begin Message --- jdd wrote: Jason Craig wrote: but the YaST control center does not have all the same modules that are available on my desktop, System Services being one that is missing. are you root? Yes, at least supposedly. I'm logging in as root, but I'm

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Jason Craig
Sloan wrote: What version of suse do you have there? 10.1 had serious issues with package management, 10.2 was improved, and 10.3 is quite nice actually, as long as you do not install zmd, but zypper instead, for your package management needs. If you're using sles 10, they have done some work on

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread jdd
Jason Craig wrote: are you root? Yes, at least supposedly. I'm logging in as root, but I'm not entirely sure if this is "root" or "root-like" access, as it is a VPS and not a dedicated server. well... I see two ways of knowing so (there are certainly many more I don't know :-): * do you h

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Sloan
Jason Craig wrote: > Sloan wrote: >> What version of suse do you have there? 10.1 had serious issues with >> package management, 10.2 was improved, and 10.3 is quite nice actually, >> as long as you do not install zmd, but zypper instead, for your package >> management needs. If you're using sles 1

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Sloan
Jason Craig wrote: > > If ncurse mode is the mode in which it draws a pretty blue background > and little borders around stuff with ASCII art, then yes. Memory > usage (gauged through free -m at least) goes up only 13MB when "yast2" > is run from CL, but when the Software Management module is star

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Bryen
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 00:31 +0100, jdd wrote: > Jason Craig wrote: > > >> are you root? > > Yes, at least supposedly. I'm logging in as root, but I'm not entirely > > sure if this is "root" or "root-like" access, as it is a VPS and not a > > dedicated server. > > well... I see two ways of kno

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-11-26 at 21:13 +0100, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: I'd put it somewhere late in the runlevel sequence of events. Like, say 30 or so. On my SLES10 it's killed as no 10 and started as no 12. As root, goto /etc/init.d/rc3.d and do: ln -

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-11-26 at 13:06 -0700, Jason Craig wrote: Say I've installed some software, like PostgreSQL, that adds a beautiful script to /etc/init.d/ that starts or stops the server. Now I want to start the server in, say runlevel 3, so I know

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Jason Craig
Sloan wrote: Jason Craig wrote: If ncurse mode is the mode in which it draws a pretty blue background and little borders around stuff with ASCII art, then yes. Memory usage (gauged through free -m at least) goes up only 13MB when "yast2" is run from CL, but when the Software Management modul

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Joe Sloan
Jason Craig wrote: > It's a rather cheap VPS and thus is only equipped with 128MB of RAM for me. > > > As for zypper or zmd, > rpm -qa | grep zmd > gave no results and > zypper sl > said "bash: zypper: command not found", so it appears neither. So it appears they don't want customers updating t

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:23:20PM -0700, Jason Craig wrote: > Sloan wrote: > >Jason Craig wrote: > > > >>Sorry, I've been struggling to find any information on this, mainly > >>because it is difficult to find proper search terms. > >> > >>Say I've installed some software, like PostgreSQL, that a

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-26 Thread jdd
Jason Craig wrote: It's a rather cheap VPS and thus is only equipped with 128MB of RAM for me. mine have and have no problem, but I fear 128 is not enough for openSUSE 10.2 normal operation so, yes it is usable (really?) but await problems jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-27 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Jason Craig wrote: Sloan wrote: Jason Craig wrote: Sorry, I've been struggling to find any information on this, mainly because it is difficult to find proper search terms. Say I've installed some software, like PostgreSQL, that adds a beautiful script to /etc/init.d/ that starts or stops the

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-27 Thread jdd
jdd wrote: Jason Craig wrote: It's a rather cheap VPS and thus is only equipped with 128MB of RAM for me. mine have sorry numeric keyboard not enabled :-(: was 256Mo jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-27 Thread Aaron Kulkis
jdd wrote: Jason Craig wrote: Memory usage (gauged through free -m at least) goes up only 13MB when "yast2" is run from CL, but when the Software Management module is started (with a grand total of 0 repositories) then it uses 40MB, and with OSS and Update repositories, and trying to inst

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-11-29 Thread Philipp Thomas
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:06:10 -0700, Jason Craig wrote: >Say I've installed some software, like PostgreSQL, that adds a beautiful >script to /etc/init.d/ that starts or stops the server. Now I want to >start the server in, say runlevel 3, so I know I need to add links to It depends on how you

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-12-03 Thread M. Todd Smith
On Nov 29, 2007, at 9:50 PM, Philipp Thomas wrote: Manually created symlinks will be removed the next time insserv gets run! Philipp Is there anyway to circumvent this behaviour? I recently discovered that when a machine gets rebooted its missing the first NFS mount point because the nfs

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-12-03 Thread jdd
M. Todd Smith wrote: On Nov 29, 2007, at 9:50 PM, Philipp Thomas wrote: Manually created symlinks will be removed the next time insserv gets run! Philipp Is there anyway to circumvent this behaviour? you may have to test it (it's simple, just write a dummy one), because I used to write s

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-12-03 Thread M. Todd Smith
On Dec 3, 2007, at 1:44 PM, M. Todd Smith wrote: On Nov 29, 2007, at 9:50 PM, Philipp Thomas wrote: Manually created symlinks will be removed the next time insserv gets run! Philipp Is there anyway to circumvent this behaviour? I recently discovered that when a machine gets rebooted its

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-12-03 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-12-03 at 13:44 -0500, M. Todd Smith wrote: Is there anyway to circumvent this behaviour? Of course there is, it is documented, and I explained it in this very thread a few days ago. You just have to read it :-) - -- Cheers,

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-12-03 Thread M. Todd Smith
On Dec 3, 2007, at 5:30 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: Of course there is, it is documented, and I explained it in this very thread a few days ago. You just have to read it :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. My apologies, I just deleted my archive of suse mail this past week. Nevertheless th

Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/

2007-12-10 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Bryen wrote: On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 00:31 +0100, jdd wrote: Jason Craig wrote: are you root? Yes, at least supposedly. I'm logging in as root, but I'm not entirely sure if this is "root" or "root-like" access, as it is a VPS and not a dedicated server. well... I see two ways of knowing so (t