A plague of daemons and the Unix Philosophy

[mike ledoux]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:46:18PM -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2007, at 11:37, Tom Buskey wrote:
> > Is there a list of what each daemon does?
> 
>  From the "you don't really know how to use a tool until you know  
> three ways to abuse it" department:
> 
> run:
> 
>    '/usr/sbin/ntsysv'
> 
> cursor-over the service and hit F1.
> 
> There may be a better way, but that's the one I've found and is  
> sufficient.

I don't know about 'better', but all that is doing is displaying the
"description:" field from the initscript.  If you don't want to use
a special tool, you can get that same info by just looking at the
top of the initscript yourself.

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