Ubuntu Upgrade : 9.04 to 9.10

Soon Karmic came out, I was a bit heasitant to pressing the "Upgrade Distro" button and decided to wait for 3 months. It felt very smooth ^^. Here is my experience during the upgrade.

During the Upgrade

• Asked if I wanted to keep my original configs for [Networks and vsftpd]

Issues I had

• Services menu item is missing from "System->Administration".
• My apache2 virtual hosts went missing yet again.

Resolutions

• Found an alternative way to managing my Services.
• Had to edit my "/etc/hosts" file to have my Apache2 Virtualhost names back in :)

Ubuntu : Karmic 9.10 : Service Handling

After a fairly smooth upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10. I found System->Administration->Services .... The "Services" GUI is missing in the menu, so I couldn't help but look to see if there is another way and turns out there is :)

The "service" Command Way
A nice clean way of seeing services in action.

service --status-all

Example of seeing a service status

sudo service vsftpd status

The Other Way?
Shows the various services

ls /etc/init.d/

Example of seeing a service status

/etc/init.d/vsftpd status

Final Thoughts
I actually Like the "service" command as it seems more cleaner to look at.

Think I'll check the "Menu Editor" to see if it hasn't accidently been de-activiated. [moments later] Heh, it is missing.