How do you turn off and on services? (network, ssh...etc)

Thaidog · Veteran Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 1053

I am used to SuSE and Red Hat where you can issue a: rcnetwork stop or service network stop

How do you do these commands in Gentoo?

Sadako · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 4:27 am Post subject:

Typically you use something like `/etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop`, for example.

The common commands are start, stop, status and zap, which lets you stop something when `/etc/init.d/whatever stop` fails (say the daemon dies or something).

Other scripts can define their own functions, such as iptables with save, reload and panic.

Take a look at the scripts in /etc/init.d
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Thaidog · Veteran Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 1053

timeBandit · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:06 am Post subject:

In recent Gentoo versions you can use eselect, an extensible, multi-purpose tool for many Gentoo administration tasks. This is a relatively new framework, added within the past year or so, but looks to be the wave of the future. Type eselect for an overview.

To manage services, use eselect rc start <service> and eselect rc stop <service>. Type eselect rc alone and/or see man eselect for more help.
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