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Managing Daemons or Services
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In addition to managing the installed packages wajig
also
allows you to start, stop, reload, and
restart services (which are often provided by so called
daemons--processes that run on your computer in the background
performing various functions on an on-going basis). The commands all
follow the same pattern:
$ wajig restart <service name> (/etc/init.d/<service> restart)
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The start and stop commands are obvious. The
restart command generally performs a stop followed by a start.
The reload command will ask the daemon to reload its
configuration files generally without stopping the daemon, if this is
possible. The services you can specifiy here depend on what you have
installed. Common services include:
| apache |
Web server |
| cron |
Regular task scheduler |
| exim |
Email delivery system |
| gdm |
The Gnome Windows Display Manager (for logging on) |
| ssh |
The Secure Shell daemon |
Generally, daemons are started at system boot time automatically.
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