Ubuntu General

Ubuntu General Notes

Starting/Stoping Services

invoke-rc.d

Usage

invoke-rc.d service-name start|stop|restart

This is the equivalent to "service" in RedHat based Distros

Starting Services at Boot

update-rc.d

Usage

update-rc.d service-name start|stop|restart

This is the equivalent to "chkconfig" in RedHat based Distros

Optionally you can run rcconf a menu based Command Line utility

rcconfig

This package may not be installed by default

apt-get install rcconf

Mounting NFS Shares

In order to mount NFS shares you need the 'portmap' package to be installed.

apt-get install portmap

To mount a share do:

mount -t nfs <server-name or ip>:/remote/path /local/path

Example:

mount -t nfs 192.168.0.1:/share/junk /mnt/junk

This mounts the directory /share/junk on server 192.168.0.1 to the local path /mnt/junk

AutoMount at boot To automount you need to edit /etc/fstab, and add a line like this:

192.168.0.1:/share/junk /mnt/junk   nfs     defaults        0 0

This mounts the directory /share/junk on server 192.168.0.1 to the local path /mnt/junk at boot-up