Re: Newbie question: moving from RedHat to Debian

[Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto@gmx.net>]

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 23:30, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On 2004-03-17, Roland Dunn penned:
> > - Anyone know of any sites that try to make such moves simple for users -
> > that list some of the common differences between Debian and RedHat?
> 
> I don't know about this.
> 
> > - On RedHat /etc/rc.d/init.d/ was where you could find scripts to start/stop
> > apache, samba, etc .... where is this on Debian?
> 
> /etc/init.d
> 
> > - Also on RedHat you could use chkconfig to setup such a script to restart
> > on reboot - is there an equivalent for Debian?
> 
> Not exactly.  There's an update-rc.d script, but it doesn't work like
> chkconfig.  Most people just create the symlinks themselves if they want
> to change something.

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Not all of them, not the lazybones like me:
update-rc.d
I don't use the tool often, but IIRC the few times I used it it did what
it should, i.e. creating the links in /etc/rc[X].d

If my lousy memory serves me well:
To remove links:
update-rc.d -f [script-name from /etc/init.d] remove

To install the links again:
update-rc.d -n  [script-name from /etc/init.d] defaults
without the '-n' option

To be sure please
man update-rc.d

HTH

Best Regards
Wolfgang
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