Debian-newbie questions

[Ilya Palagin]

waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:
>   Hopefully I'll outgrow this status in few weeks.  Questions...
> 
> 1) Help... No X-Windowing!  The startx command gets a response...
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: /usr/bin/X11/X: no such file or directory
> The config file is there, but no X.
Try to execute the following:
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

> 
> 2) What is the command for starting/stopping services that's equivalant
> to Redhat's "service iptables start" or "service syslog stop", etc ?
> 
/etc/init.d/service start

And `update-rc.d` as an equivalent for chkconfig.

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