Actualización Diciembre 2022: desarrollé este programa en 2005. Se mantiene la página por interés "arqueológico".
Debian services control panel
What is "Debian services control panel"?
This program is a small and simple tool that manages the available "services" in a Debian (or Debian-based) box.
We define "services" as the programs that are in the /etc/init.d/ directory. In fact, this program is a front-end for the update-rc.d tool. You can start, stop and restart services. You can set (or unset) each service to be launched when booting the system.
Using the program
First at all: you must run the program as root, or vía sudo:
you@your-box $ sudo debian-srv-cp
Why? This program makes and delete symbolic links in the directory /etc/, and this task only can be acheived by the superuser root.
The main window show several buttons: 'Start', 'Stop', 'Restart', 'Set default', 'Remove default' and 'Quit' and a list with all the available services. You have to select a service in the list and use the desired button. Here is a screenshot:
You may download the a Debian package (.deb) and install it with this command:
dpkg -i debian-srv-cp.deb
This program has been developed using Gambas. Gambas is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for BASIC. A program written in Gambas needs a "Gambas runtime", like Java programs need a "Java runtime". There are "official" gambas debian packages for "testing" and "unstable". You will need the package gambas-gb-qt (and its dependences, of course).
If you are curious or a Gambas programmer, you can download the program's source code (NOTE: this program was written for Gambas 1.x).
Bugs
If there is some corrupted file (broken link, empty file) in the /etc/init.d/ directory, the program will crash: In my system (KANOTIX 2005-03, a distro based on Debian sid and Knoppix), there was an invalid file called knoppix-terminalserver. I removed it and the program run without errors.