neddie Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 In Mandriva there's a handy panel in the mcc to tell you which services are running, which are automatically started on boot etc - and you can use it to stop / start services. I'm looking for the same kind of thing in Kubuntu. How can I configure what's running and switch off what I don't need? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 (edited) Install bum, I think it's in the universe source. Though it's with GTK2 engine. Edited November 10, 2006 by Artificial Intelligence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted November 10, 2006 Author Share Posted November 10, 2006 Thanks, I'd seen someone mention that particular program, but I thought with a name like that I can't take it seriously... :unsure: wasn't sure if it was a joke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 Hehehe I know ^^. BUM = Boot-UP Manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 There are worse names than BUM for Linux apps. Ever heard of Bitch X? :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 Ever heard of Bitch X? :D Still it sounds less hardcore than Vista to my ears! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 gimp isn't as innocent as well :P , but not as "bad" as bitch X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted November 11, 2006 Author Share Posted November 11, 2006 Is it normal that the services list is so short? In Mandriva 2007 the list is enormous, and chances are when you go in there there's something running that doesn't really need to be running. In Kubuntu it's a tiny list of things and all of them sound innocuous. Is there some difference as to what's called a service? I was particularly interested in seeing what things I was exposing to the network, like ssh server or ftp server for example - to make sure I'm not unwittingly leaving things open. Would that kind of thing be listed in bum as a service, or somewhere else? Or does that kind of thing not come as standard with Kubuntu at all? Re: names, the best app name I've seen is kitchensync for a synchronisation tool. Never used it but a brilliant name! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 Is it normal that the services list is so short? Aye, Ubuntu/kubuntu is setup to run minimal things by default and not to have everything turn on. But you can easely make the list huge if you want ;) I'm not much into Kubuntu or KDE for that sake, but you can also check Ksysguard (isn't that the name of KDE's System monitor?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 (edited) Is it normal that the services list is so short? Youy haven't ever used Arch Linux, did ya? :P By default it's running just syslog-ng, network, netfs and crond as services, and it's working great- you can add any service you like by hand in it's main (and almost sole) configuration file... Edited November 12, 2006 by scarecrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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