Ubuntu Services GUI management tool

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sat Aug 27 05:38:09 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 17:06 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> > On 08/26/2011 08:18 AM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi to all.
> >>
> >>
> >> Has Ubuntu any services management GUI tool for GNOME, apart from the
> >> command line ones like chkconfig?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thank you.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > 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.

Is that the package name? I'm not finding it. Ric


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