Ubuntu Services GUI management tool

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Aug 26 15:24:33 UTC 2011


On 08/26/2011 07:06 AM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
...
>> I believe services configuration tools were a victim of the change to
>> Upstart as a SysInit replacement.  Boot time is faster, but no thought was
>> given on how system configuration tools, back-end or front-end, would work.
>>  Even chkconfig won't work, as that only affects services that are still
>> configured via the legacy SysV support.
>>
>> (All the disadvantages of Slackware, none of the simplicity,, yay for Ubuntu
>> progress)
> 
> 
> I think I found a great GUI front-end, and it supports BOTH Upstart
> jobs and System V init scripts. It is called jobs-admin in Synaptic.

Cool! Seems to be fairly new:
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Maverick/UpstartJobAdministration>
Google Summer of Code 2010 project.





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