A plague of daemons and the Unix Philosophy
mike ledoux
mwl+gnhlug at alumni.unh.edu
Tue Nov 13 15:24:04 EST 2007
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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