My original question was, "How do I run 'chkconfig' (or something else) to obtain a display of usage information on my system?" The 'man' page states: "When chkconfig is run without any options, it displays usage information." But that did not work as advertised. Bill Jonas suggested using: " chkconfig --list " and that did work to generate the list shown below, whereas 'chkconfig' by itself with no options did not work as described in the man page. But now that I have this long list, I don't know what to do with it. It was my understanding from an earlier post that the reason one should run 'chkconfig' was to determine what "services" might be running that might pose a security risk. But this list doesn't tell me anything that makes any sense too me. So, I don't know what (if anything) to do with this information. Jeremy Reed commented that 'chkconfig' does not display system usage and he asked: "What do you specifically want?" Well, I want two things: I want to know what, if anything, I need to do to keep my system secure -- specifically are there any "services" that need to be turned off, and if so, how to do that. Second, I would like to be able to "check the configuration" of my system (as the name 'chkconfig' suggests), so that I might know what is the overall configuration of my system. When one starts up, Linux lists a lot of details that seem to describe everything pertaining to the configuration of one's system ... however all this information scrolls by too fast t be able to read it all and there seems to be no way to capture all those details to a file ... or is there? Joe ----------------------------------- The results of: /sbin/chkconfig --list : alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off kheader 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off kudzu 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off usb 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off random 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off rawdevices 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off sound 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off linuxconf 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off keytable 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off portmap 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off xinetd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off medusa-init 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off harddrake 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off apmd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off internet 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off anacron 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off gpm 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off numlock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off oki4daemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off cups 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off httpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off proftpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off Win4Lin 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off mysql 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off xinetd based services: chargen-udp: off chargen: off daytime-udp: off daytime: off echo-udp: off echo: off time-udp: off time: off rsync: off fam: on cvs: off linuxconf-web: off cups-lpd: off proftpd-xinetd: off ----------------------- Originally, I wrote: > The man page for 'chkconfig' states the following: > "When chkconfig is run without any options, it displays > usage information." > But when I type 'chkconfig' on my Mandrake 8.1 system, > nothing happens ... no response at all.  'slocate' tells me that > 'chkconfig' does exist on my system in /sbin. > So, I tried: /sbin/chkconfig and got the following response: > chkconfig version 1.2.23 - Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Red Hat, Inc. > This may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU Public License. > usage: chkconfig --list [name] >  chkconfig --add >  chkconfig --del >  chkconfig [--level ] ) > > How do I run 'chkconfig' (or something else) to obtain > a display of usage information on my system? --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss