managing services in ubuntu

[Sivan Green]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:52:22 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:15:49PM +0100, Mark Cooke wrote:
> > Erik Bågfors wrote:
> >
> > >>>How does one manage services in ubuntu (control which services get
> > >>>started at
> > >>>boot for each runlevel, stop and start services)?
> > >>
> > >>By modifying the symlinks in /etc/rc?.d.
> >
> > or the correct method would for debian would be to run update-rc.d on
> > whatever service you require, best to read man update-rc.d or if you
> > want a graphical gtk2 version, install gnome-system-tools run :
> > services-admin
> 
> This is a common misunderstanding; the correct method in Debian is to modify
> the symlinks.  update-rc.d is a tool used by packages to install and remove
> the links when a package is installed or removed.
> 

Matt, please correct me if I am wrong, but don't they have
gnome-system-tools for exatcly this kind of task?

Sivan