On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:57:55 +1100 Ivan Teliatnikov <ivan@geosci.usyd.edu.au> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I am pursing a task of establishing a procedure among my colleagues - > system administrator which will help us enable/disable services on > Debian servers. > > I am considering "update-rc.d" script that is mentioned in Debian > documentation and was also mentioned on this list on a few occasions. > I have 2 questions which are not covered by either manual for > update-rc.d or the official Debian documentation: > > 1. How do I preserve a knowledge of priority level (K or S) for a > daemon? keep a log of your sys-admin activity. > > For example: > > When daemon is installed, some default priority values are setup. > > e.g. for "amd" both K and S value are equal to 35. > Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/am-utils ... > /etc/rc0.d/K35am-utils > /etc/rc3.d/S35am-utils > > or for "nfs-kernel-server" K=80 and S=20. > /etc/rc5.d/S20nfs-kernel-server > /etc/rc6.d/K80nfs-kernel-server > > Let assume that I disable nfs-kernel-server by setting up K=80 for all > run levels. How I am suppose to know that value of S should be equal to > 20, 3 months later when I decide that I need this service. I have seen > in the past a formula K=100-S, but it obviously does not apply > universally to all daemons ( in case of AMD S=K=35). There are default values for all the services. If you just update-rc.d <service> defaults then it will install the symlinks to their default values automatically. If you have changed them, you probably need to update-rc.d [-f] <service> remove where -f forces removal. update-rc.d will notify you if you need to use it. then do the defaults update again and you should be back where you started. If you are setting up a custom configuration where services start and stop in a non-default order, then the best I can recommend is to use the ol' paper and pencil to keep notes. There may be a way to set what it considers "defaults", but I leave that to you to research. Also, if you do find a way to change the "Defaults" it may not stick around after a package upgrade. > > I can purge and re-install and the package, but I do not to loose all > configuration settings. totally unnecessary. A > > For example > > 2. Is there a command/tool to display status of all services in all > runlevels. I recall that such tool existed in RedHat 8.0 > > /sbin/chkconfig --list > > if I am not mistaken. > > -- > Ivan Teliatnikov > F09 Madsen Bld. > School of Geosciences, > University of Sydney > phone: +612 9351 2031 > mobile: +614 02 173 179 > fax: +612 9351 3644 > e-mail:ivan@geosci.usyd.edu.au > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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