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Re: [PLUG] "services" under Linux
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 06:57:44AM -0800, Wayne Dawson wrote:
> What exactly is a service?
A service is also refered to as a daemon under unix. Daemons typically
run in user-land memory space, but can run as part of the kernel (system
core) if necessary. They are usually triggered at startup from scripts
running in /etc/init.d/.
> I thought perhaps services are always processes that run whenever the
> system is running, but that doesn't appear to be the case.
If setup correctly that is the case. Running `setup` as root in RH
simply gives you the option to enable/disable the script to be run from
init.d. However, the script will not run until you initialize it
yourself by giving a command like:
/etc/init.d/foo start
> ...where to look to find out for sure what these various services do?
The man pages are a good place to start. Type `man daemonname` or
similar.
> And which ones I can turn off?
Well, that's entirely up to you. :-D
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Regards,
Michael Bevilacqua
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