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services-admin

services-admin(1)					      General Commands Manual						 services-admin(1)

NAME

       services-admin - Services Administration Tool

SYNOPSIS

       services-admin [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

       services-admin is part of the GNOME system tools, a set of tools to easily access and manage system configuration.

       services-admin allows you to specify which services will be started during the system boot process.

OPTIONS

       services-admin accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.

AUTHORS

       services-admin was written by Carlos Garnacho Parro <garnacho@tuxerver.net> and others.

       This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       users-admin(1), network-admin(1), time-admin(1), shares-admin(1), gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7)

       The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.

GNOME
								    2007-05-08							 services-admin(1)

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