Just installed 5.04 and...

Paolo Ciarrocchi paolo.ciarrocchi at gmail.com
Wed Sep 21 12:53:58 UTC 2005


On 9/21/05, Paul M. Bucalo <ubuntu at pmbservices.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:17:04 +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
>
> > ... I don't know how:
> > - Change the default entry in grub (the machine is a dual boot XP Ubuntu)
> > - Select what services start at boot time
> >
> > I know I can do it with vi and man but I think there should a
> > graphical tool for that.
> > Am I right ?
>
> Boot-Up Manager
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=42129

Yup, I've got the same suggestion from the Italian Ubuntu list,
so I already downloaded BUM. Too bad it's not part of Hoary.

> I use it for the (rc2.d) service level that I normally boot-up with and
> 'update-rc.d -f <service name> remove' for rcS.d, rc0.d and rc6.d services
> that the program will not remove. BUM will not allow the removal from
> these three levels.
>
> 'update-rc.d' must be used with 'sudo' or
> logged in as root. Be careful with messing around with the service levels
> I specifically mentioned. If you don't know what you are doing and remove
> a needed or vital service, your system may not boot-up or become very
> unstable. Lastly, updates can cause removed services to come back using
> this method, so it's normal to have to do this repeatedly over time.

Yes, I'm not a newbie to Linux, just to Ubuntu ;-)

> HTH,

It helps a lot. Thanks.

--
Paolo




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