John H. Robinson, IV([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:30:48PM -0700:
> Gus Wirth wrote:
> > I'm playing around with KnoppMyth, and because it's based on Debian I'm not
> > familiar yet with how certain things are done. In my Fedora system I have a
> > utility called chkconfig that will manage the rc?.d symlinks for me to
> > control daemon startup/shutdown based on runlevel. Is there some Debian
> > equivalent to chkconfig to manage these symlinks or do I just have to do it
> > by hand?
> 
> There are tools  that can do it, but they are mostly suited for scripts.
> The Debian Way is for you to do the rc.d things by hand. If you make any
> changes, including deleting the symlinks, they will be respected. If you
> delete *all* the symlinks, the next upgrade of the package will recreate
> *all* of them.

The main tool that I know of is /usr/sbin/update-rc.d    As John
said, it is mostly for use with scripts, but could certainly be
used at the prompt.

Wade

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