On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:55:24 -0600, you 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 3 ways, depending. Here's the 2 from a console (someone else already gave you the gui method) chkconfig sets it to run on boot, service starts, stops, and restarts immediately. chkconfig --list will give you the list of services (hence the command service) Mike- -- If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,