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Is there currently any GUI based application to show currently running services, with buttons to start and stop services?

It doesn't necessarily need to be able to set boot up behaviour.

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Yes, jobs-admin is the new GUI which uses jobservice to configure Upstart scripts. It's in Maverick's repos, but there's a PPA available at https://launchpad.net/~jpeddicord/+archive/jobtools for Lucid.

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jobs-admin looks interesting, I'll have to keep an eye on it. – aperson Aug 30 '10 at 22:38
I just tried this tool, version 0.8.0. It is similar to BUM with fewer features, and even when I run it as su it is not able to edit my init levels because of what seems to be a bug? – djangofan Dec 20 '11 at 16:26
I installed mysql and it doesn't show in the jobs-admin. Not sure why. – Praveen Sripati Mar 29 at 2:54
Here's the jobs-admin bug in question, FYI: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jobs-admin/+bug/947674 – Jay Apr 1 at 21:56
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I believe Boot-Up Manager is what you're looking for (package name is bum).

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Are you sure that works with Upstart scripts, not just init scripts? The package description doesn't say it works with Upstart... – maco Aug 30 '10 at 22:38
It doesn't seem to work with upstart, though aren't most services still init scripts? – aperson Aug 30 '10 at 22:51
This doesn't work with upstart the way you would think. – djangofan Dec 20 '11 at 16:21
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