service/servicesetup chkconfig functions

[pwatk]

Could we have options added to the service and/or servicesetup scripts to enable (chmod 775) the service without actually starting it in a similar way to chkconfig?

Thanks.

[gapan]

Hmm... well... adding enable/disable options in the service command is not hard at all. Adding it to the servicesetup script or gtkservicesetup would make the gui needlessly complex though. But even for the service command I'm not convinced of it's usefulness. Running

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chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.foo

is just as easy as

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service enable foo

in my opinion.

[pwatk]

I'd use on/off instead of enable/disable to make it worth while but it's up to you.

[thenktor]

Hmm... well... adding enable/disable options in the service command is not hard at all. Adding it to the servicesetup script or gtkservicesetup would make the gui needlessly complex though. But even for the service command I'm not convinced of it's usefulness. Running

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chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.foo

is just as easy as

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service enable foo

in my opinion.

I agree

[pwatk]

Then again, it's just as easy to do

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/etc/rc.d/rc.foo start

...as it is to do

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service start foo

Just a thought

[thenktor]

And this is exactly what I do

[gapan]

That's also what I do if I want to just start the service. But "service start foo" also chmods it, so it's actually the equivalent of

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chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.foo
/etc/rc.d/rc.foo start

[pwatk]

Nevermind .