It’s convenient for a Maemo developer to have sshd and syslogd running on the device but on normal use they just use resources and wear out the flash.
I made a little Control Panel plugin with zuh‘s help for starting and stopping System V style init script actions. It uses invoke-rc.d for starting and stopping services and update-rc.d to add and remove services in system boot time actions.
It has only basic features implemented, i.e. it can start and stop services and add and remove them from startup routines.
TODO:
- Speed up starting time by getting rid of fork+exec
- Add infoprints about the success of execution commands
- Sort services alphabetically
- Add option to hide “built-in” services
Be aware that this includes a suid root binary for executing the System V scripts!
The plugin UI is written with C++ so you need to have extras repository on your catalogue list for gtkmm libraries:
Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras/
Distribution: bora
Components: free non-free
The plugin can be installed from my maemo repository:
Web address: http://tuomas.kulve.fi/debian
Distribution: bora
Components: maemo