On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 14:13 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: > Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > After the problems I had with Fedora Core 6, I installed Fedora Core 5 > > when I tried again. It seems to be working. I'm sure I'm going to have > > some questions as I switch from Ubuntu to Fedora. > > > > Question 1: > > Most of the distributions I've used bring up a service (MySQL, Samba, > > etc) when I install it. Fedora doesn't. Is there a tool for this, or do > > I drop back to raw mode as if I compiled them? e.g. how do I bring up > > MySQL and Samba. > > > > Thanks in advance > > ---Michael > > > > as root > > chkconfig mysqld on > chkconfig smbd on > > will enable these services to start at boot. > > man chkconfig > > or use System -> Administration -> Server Settings -> Services in Gnome ---- that would work IF you installed mysql server package... rpm -qa|grep mysql if you don't see mysql-server package, then you have to install it... yum install mysql-server Craig
