Re: Simplest way to reconstruct /etc/rc?.d

[Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu>]

While I understand it's not ideal, this does seem to have done the trick. 
I used:

for i in `ls`
do
update-rc.d $i defaults
done



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On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu> wrote:
>
> > I had a hard drive glitch that seems to have screwed up some of the
> > /etc/rc?.d links. The /etc/init.d area is fine, but lots of services
> > are no longer coming up automatically.  I can fix them one at a time
> > with:
> >
> > dpkg-reconfigure xdm
> >
> > replacing xdm with whatever package I've noticed needs to be redone.
> > But I'd rather just set them all to their defaults, which is what
> > this system uses anyway. Is there an easy way to do that, instead of
> > trying to figure out what's broken and fixing it one by one?
>
> 'update-rc.d foobar defaults' will set service foobar to default
> runlevels. Now you just need a magic shell incantation to do this for
> every file in /etc/init.d
>
> HTH,
> Andrei
> --
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