> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:39:19 +0100, James Wilkinson > <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > > > First off, run these from a command line: > > > > > > # service --status-all > > > and > > > # chkconfig --list > > > > > > This will give you a list of all the services and their status. > > > > > > IMO, We should not have to look at the scripts. If you find something > > > in the output of these two that does not have a man page post a > > > question here. (man -k something; apropos something). > > > > > > Those of us that know what the service is should answer and one of us > > > should bugzilla a man page request. With a little discussion we > > > should be able to discover what it is that people need to know and > > > some context to make the description and discussion in the new man > > > page valuable to the new user. Well there is the Gnome Services app system-config-services and that provides a list of the services as well as a summary of a service you select (not all of them have summaries, and some that do are rather cryptic, but that's a different matter). If you want a text ui to this, then I suppose it wouldn't be that difficult.
