Bug#475361: ITP: chkconfig -- system tool to enable or disable system services

["Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@gmail.com>]

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Peter Eisentraut <petere@debian.org>
>
> * Package name    : chkconfig
>   Version         : 10.3-90
>   Upstream Author : Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.de>
> * License         : GPL
>   Programming Lang: Perl
>   Description     : system tool to enable or disable system services
>
> Chkconfig is a utility to update and query runlevel information for system
> services.  Chkconfig manipulates the numerous symbolic links in /etc/rc.d, to
> relieve system administrators of some of the drudgery of manually editing the
> symbolic links.
>   
This tool is already exists now - 'update-rc.d'. What advantages have 
the chkconfig?