RE: chkconfig is to redhat as ___ is to debian?
On 06-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote:
> I want to:
>
>
> NAME
> chkconfig - updates and queries runlevel information for
> system services
>
> DESCRIPTION
> chkconfig provides a simple command-line tool for main-
> taining the /etc/rc[0-6].d directory hierarchy by reliev-
> ing system administrators of the task of directly manipu-
> lating the numerous symbolic links in those directories.
>
>
Ok.
1) Debian only installs a package if the item is expected to be used. So the
usual use of chkconfig to disable unneeded daemons should not apply here. If
you want to disable a daemon (it happens sometimes) and there is no way
provided (many packages offer a do not run me option if there is demand) you
just edit the init.d script or remove the rc?.d symlinks.
2) as others have said update-rc.d
3) ls the rc?.d directory to see what is started when. For the most part
things are started in a certain order to play nicely with others. You may need
to change this, but likely not. My router is a laptop so I had to move many of
my daemons to start much later than pcmcia.
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