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Re: how to manage services ?



On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:02:07AM +0500, debi@niit.edu.pk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to debina. I have certain services running like lpd rpc etc. In RedHat there is a command chkconfig with which i can start/ top services for certain run levels or completely stop it from running.

Like others have already suggested, `update-rc.d' is equivalent to
`chkconfig'. Also, in Woody (Stable) I found `rcconf' which is somewhat
like `ntsysv'.

I myself migrated from Red Hat, so I will let you know what I do.

I do not like unnecessary processes/daemons running, so to have
them disabled completely irrespective of runlevel, I do:

update-rc.d -f <name> remove

where <name> is found in /etc/init.d/.

If you want something to run only in runlevel 2 and 3, you do:

update-rc.d <name> start 33 2 3 .

..followed by

update-rc.d <name> stop 40 0 4 5 6 .

NOTE: The "." at the end are important. 

Also, you should run the command with the "-n" flag for a dry-run
to see what it will actually do, like:

update-rc.d -n <name> defaults

...will show you the steps that will happen without doing them.

BTW, the above example is analogous to:

chkconfig <name> on


HTH,

Didar

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