Topic: Disabling Services in SME5.0

[Jon Thiele]

On 20 May 2001, Gordon Rowell in the DEVINFO forumn, gave an example of how to disable a service in essg4.1.2.  He said to simply type in (for example):

/sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop atalk disabled    or
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop smb disabled
[...]

/sbin/e-smith/signal-event  post-upgrade
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event  reboot


After upgrading my essg4.1.2 to SME5.0, I can't seem to use the "/sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop atalk disabled" command.  I'm getting an error indicating that I'm missing a parameter - either prop1 or val1:

/sbin/e-smith/db dbfile setprop key prop1 val1...

any suggestions???

(you know, SME5.0 just doesn't have the same ring as essg4.1.2, does it???)

[Dan Brown]

Are you sure that wasn't

/sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop atalk status disabled

(note the extra "status" in there)

[Norrie]

Hi,

I want do disable services too using the e-smith-service-control contrib RPM but it doesn't seem to work in SME5.0  Has anyone else had trouble with this?

Regards

N.

[Jon Thiele]

yep, "status" was the missing keyword.  

thanx.

[Tibor Kubinyi]

The e-smith-service-control contrib RPM did not work for me on a new sme5 install as well. It displays status of the services (enabled/disabled) in the server-manager properly, but any attempt to enable/disable any service fails.

[Jan Kalicki]

The service module does work if you use lynx on the console.
Must be a GUI thing