graphical app to manage startup services Linux Mint KDE

[rgilaard]

Hi all,
I' m looking for a graphical app that I can use to manage the startup services on Linux Mint 9 KDE edition. I want to be able to shutdown services like samba, cups, bluetooth, sshd, etc etc.
Hope there is a application which I can use for this purpose.

brgds
Robert

[Elisa]

System monitor or BUM (boot up manager) ?
I have gnome, not have KDE ran now just try to look up for them if u have them...

[altair4]

I don't know if KDE has the same problem as Gnome but I don't think there is a GUI to start and stop services anymore. The problem is there are two mechanisms in play now that control how services are started: the old System-V style init scripts and Upstart. update-rc.d, sysv-rc-conf and BUM are tools for managing System-V style init scripts. They are not however able to manage the Upstart jobs. I don't think there is a GUI for upstart jobs.

Take your original example: cups and samba

If you run the following command you will get a status list of all services running from a System-V perspective:

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sudo service --status-all

Amoung the output you will notice this:

[ + ] cups
[ ? ] smbd

A "+" means it's running, a "-" means it's not, and a "?" means it has no idea. Why?, because the old method still controls cups but it does not control samba ( smbd).

To get a listing of the status of upstart jobs run the following command:

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sudo initctl list

You will see no listing for cups but you will see one for samba:

smbd start/running, process 1605

Take a look at where the scripts used to be:

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/etc/init.d

All of the old scripts are still there but all of the upstart references are now symlinks.

The control of how upstart jobs run is now in:

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/etc/init

To control an upstart job ( unless KDE does in fact have a GUI ) you have to modify the conf file at /etc/init manually. Or, if the objective is to turn a given upstart job service off permanently you could Comment out the "start on" line in /etc/init/xxx.conf

[rgilaard]

Thanks Elisa and Altair4!

This has been solved by installing BUM and using the CLI method Altair4 proposed to comment out the "start on" line in the scripts in /etc/init.

I must say that it' s a little bit messy like this. I have made a small note in my system administration folder so I know what I have done if I need to enable those services again in the future.

Thanks again.