hello,
I am switching to debian from redhat land and have come across a
couple things that I have not been able to find complete answers to:
in redhat land the preferred way to manage the rc?.d symlinks was
with chkconfig (more typing but works right) or ntsysv (don't work
right most of the time) which allow you to set a service to be
stopped or started at specified runlevels, this was accomplished by
changing a K to a S and vise versa...
I have found and RTFM on update-rcd but it does not seem to be really
equivalent to chkconfig (only works to add a symlink not change
existing ones nor list the status of a service for a specified
runlevel...)
the way I see it to stop a service from running on a runlevel I could
a) rm the service symlink from the appropriate rc?.d or b) mv Sblah
Kblah (tedious)
the problem with a is switching runlevels will only start new
services not kill services that are not set to run in that runlevel
(unless going to 1 and back)
also I am wondering if debian leaves the runlevels function to the
sole discretion of the admin? I see that after a install 2345 are
all exactly the same (ie start every service in existence and X too)
I think I will probably setup the runlevels like redhat does 2 ->
multiuser no/minimal network stuff, 3 -> full multiuser networked
mode, 5 -> same as 3 plus X. does this violate any debian
conventions that would cause me annoyance in the future? (redhat is
riddled with traps like this...)
another oddity I noticed is there is a netbase script which appears
to start telnet and about a dozen other services that are also run
out of inetd, why? should both netbase and inetd not be run at the
same time? looking at the netbase script it appears to do a couple
other things as well but mostly it just seems to make sure your
running as many services as possible :)
is there a migrate from redhat faq anywhere? I don't remember seeing
one, if not maybe I will write one after I get to know debian better
if people think something like that would be useful.
I am running potato btw.
thanks for reading this long message...
Best Regards,
Ethan Benson
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