On Sat, 06 Mar 2004, Thomas Hood wrote:
> A far superior alternative has been written by Joe Oppegaard
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. He is currently tuning the program and plans to upload
> it very soon under sponsorship.
Quite a few people seem to be satisfied with rcconf, though sysv-rc-conf, the
new runlevel editor I've been working on, does a fine job if I may say so
myself. It takes care of all the shortcomings of rcconf and has quite a few
unique features.
Here's a quick run down:
- Two main ways to layout the screen. One which just gives the
familiar 'checkbox' layout, and one that shows the detailed link
information, which easily allows you to change the priority numbers
or the K/S field of the links.
- Able to show up to 8 different runlevels at once. Typically that means
1234506S, but you can organize them in any way you wish, or only just
show the runlevels you're interested in seeing.
- Intelligently chooses the priority numbers when enabling / disabling
a service. See the man page for more info on what criteria it uses.
- Can use the mouse if your terminal supports it.
- Able to start / stop services.
- Able to use a different root directory, handy if you have another system
mounted somewhere and want to use sysv-rc-conf on it.
- Works on any system that uses SysV like init script links. (Actively
tested on a few other distros).
There has been much discussion in this thread about the differences between
K links and no link at all. Sysv-rc-conf will always use K links when
disabling a service in the default 'checkbox' view. Though when using the
'priority' view you can modify the symlinks any way you please, including
removing the link completely. See the man page for more information on how
to do this.
A few more planned features include:
- Multiple ways to sort the services (rows), such as by priority number,
alphabetically descending, etc. (Mostly done).
- Colors.
- less(1) like search to jump to different services.
You can get all the files (.changes, .dsc, .orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz, and
.deb) at ftp://ftp.pidone.org/sysv-rc-conf
To view just the man page: http://pidone.org/sysv-rc-conf
Cheers,
-Joe Oppegaard
