Boot-Up Manager

Boot-Up Manager is a Perl-Gtk2 application to handle runlevels configuration of any debian derivative system. With this program the user will easily start and stop boot-up scripts, without the necessity to handle thru complex links and permissions.

Boot-Up Manager has been developed and tested on Ubuntu, but as it only relies on Perl-Gtk2 libraries, it can be run on any Debian-like system.

Documentation

Documentation can be found here.

Installation

Debian package

BUM is currently in Debian unstable/testing and in all Ubuntu's repositories. These users can just apt-get it.

apt-get install bum

Other users of debian-derivative distro's can just download the .deb package and type, from a terminal:

sudo dpkg -i bum_2.1.8-1_all.deb

Your Boot-Up Manager is placed into System->Administration menu.

Tarball

Unpack your tarball and build the program:

tar -xvzf bum-2.2.0.tar.gz

cd bum-2.2.0

./configure --prefix=/usr

make

make install

Last command must be run with root privileges. Please read the INSTALL file, for configuration options.

Requirements

Boot-Up Manager dependencies are: gksu, perl, libgtk2-perl (>=1.100-1), libglib-perl (>= 1.100-1), liblocale-gettext-perl, libgtk2-gladexml-perl

Download

bum_2.2.1-1_all.deb - Debian Package v. 2.2.1
bum-2.2.1.tar.gz - Source tarball v. 2.2.1

SVN

Access to the Boot-Up Manager source repository is available through both web browser and Subversion client interfaces.

With the Subversion client installed, obtaining a working copy of Boot-Up Manager codebase is as simple as:

svn checkout http://initd.org/svn/thesaltydog/bum/trunk/ bum

When checkout is over, you can compile and build the project as reported in the Installation section of this web page.

Support

Discussions relating to Boot-Up Manager and program localization take place on the Ubuntu Linux Forum.

Almost all the services started with init scripts in runlevels 2-3-4-5 and rcS.d don't have a standard, "human readable" description of their main behaviour. Very often the package description for these services is very cryptic and the common user is quite disorientated and doesn't understand the meaning. Boot-Up Manager (BUM) will use a special list to display the package description in its main view window.

If in the "Running" column of BUM main window list you have displayed a question mark (?) it means that BUM doesn't have a nicer description for the service and so it is showing the apt-cache description. The internal "human-text" list is under a constant updating process. To contribute to this list, please feel free to update this wiki-web page.

Changelog

v. 2.2.0
- Introduced new localized service descriptions

v. 2.1.10
- Fixed ubuntu bug #114187
- Introduced new localized service descriptions

v. 2.1.9
- Fixed bug on web site address
- Updated init-scripts database

v. 2.1.8
- Fixed bug on screen refresh after applying
- Added new Hungarian translation
- Updated french translation

v. 2.1.7
- Updated init-scripts database

v. 2.1.6
- Changed gksudo with gksu
- Added new Norwegian and Korean translations

v. 2.1.5
- Dropped lock file
- Added new translations

v. 2.1.4
- Added new init descriptions
- Fixed bug on summary description

v. 2.1.3
- Minor bugs fixed

v. 2.1.2
- If "human" description is not provided, defaults to apt-cache
- New help menu item added

v. 2.1.1
- Dropped sys/ioctl.ph requirement (implicit)
- Fixed minor bugs on PPC
- Added hebrew translation
- Added full sort capability over every column in any view

v. 2.0.0
- Full code & GUI re-styling
- Introduced new Advanced mode to distinguish normal user from expert

v. 1.3.4
- Using Gtk2::AboutDialog to remove dependency from libgnome2

v. 1.3.3
- Minor bugs removed
- Added polish translation

v. 1.3.2
- Minor bugs removed
- More strict on sysv-rc standards
- Removed editing capabilities from runlevel S

v. 1.3.1
- Full compliance with sysv-rc recommendations

v. 1.3.0
- Introduced new friendly descriptions for init scripts
- Visual feedback for running services
- Removed useless functions
- Fixed bug on rcS.d

v. 1.2.7
- Removed bugs on localization

v. 1.2.6
- Name changed
- All actions are now logged in syslog
- Added localization for italian, french, spanish, ducth and german
- GUI change: added a "Summary" tab view

v. 1.2.5
- Added management for services in rcS.d directory

v. 1.2.0
- Major GUI re-design.
- Added context-sensitive popup menu by right-clicking on the list.
- New functions: Change Startup Priority - Activate/Deactivate script on-the-fly - Start/Stop service.
v. 1.0.1
- Changed funtion "Save & Exit" to "Apply Changes". Program now doesn't need to exit to apply changes to runlevel scripts.
- When a script is removed, a copy is saved in /var/lib/ubm
- Minor bugs fixed
v. 1.0.0. april 17,2005 - First release

Feedback

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