On May 11, 2005, at 9:23 AM, Ed Howland wrote:
Debian has no run levels, or rather it does, but levels 2-5 are equivalent and not really used? This confused me.
update-rc.d is the command to configure services to start in run levels.
Cool. Thanks, Ed. No man page, but at least there's help:
# update-rc.d --help
usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove
update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | sNN kNN]
update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] .
-n: not really
-f: force
# update-rc.d apache defaults Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/apache ... /etc/rc0.d/K20apache -> ../init.d/apache /etc/rc1.d/K20apache -> ../init.d/apache /etc/rc6.d/K20apache -> ../init.d/apache /etc/rc2.d/S20apache -> ../init.d/apache /etc/rc3.d/S20apache -> ../init.d/apache /etc/rc4.d/S20apache -> ../init.d/apache /etc/rc5.d/S20apache -> ../init.d/apache
Hmm. That command could use a bit nicer interface. For example, a -- list option would be nice, like the one in chkconfig.
http://users.bigpond.net.au/rmoonen/Robert_Moonen/mlug-debian.txt
But can somebody explain how to get a graphical mode (RL 5) vs a shell only mode (RL 3?) type configuration. On my box at home, I just stopped all X services and explicitly start them via startx.
I assume you mean like 'init 3' or 'init 5'. I tried those and they didn't work for me. That is, the runlevel changed, but apache did not start.
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