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Use Sysvconfig As A GUI For Managing Linux Start Up Services From The Command Line

December 5th, 2009 | by admin |

Sysvconfig GUI For Managing Start Up Services

As the title of this post suggests, Sysvconfig is a useful program for managing start up services (on boot) on Linux. Sysvconfig is useful for configuring init scripts -ie: the scripts that start services at boot (or not) where you can enable or disable services that autostart and more.

Downloading and installing Sysvconfig should be easy on Debian / Ubuntu systems with one of these commands…

sudo aptitude sysvconfig

or…

sudo apt-get install sysvconfig

To run Sysvconfig just call it by its name…

sysvconfig

Once loaded you will see the main menu with options. From here everything is clear and easy. You can now manage services from the command line without stressing over what commands to use

2 Responses to “Use Sysvconfig As A GUI For Managing Linux Start Up Services From The Command Line”

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On January 4th, 2010 at 9:54 pm admin wrote:

Hi Nathon,

I just logged in to my server as root and re-ran the sysvconfig command and it’s working. My server is “2.6.28-16-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 11 09:49:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux” (checked with uname -a command).

Although I posted the aptitude command, I myself just used apt-get however I doubt that made any difference. Just in case you could try removing the package with aptitude then trying again with apt-get install and see if it works. It’s a long shot and probably not a solution but all I can think of at the moment

Dan

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