On Thursday 06 April 2006 14:44, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> I do not believe the number of people who seem to be in the "why not
> create complicated symlinks manually stuffing everything up and
> forgetting to deal with half the runlevels and turning services off at
> shutdown" corner, instead of just running insserv, which is the Linux
> standard way of doing it. Incidentally, it also gets it just right. I
> prefer chkconfig especially for its -l (right PITA on distros which
> don't have it, i.e. every but SUSE I think).
>
> After every installation I run chkconfig -l to get a quick list of
> what's running and what I don't need = don't want.
>
> And every distro worth mentioning has its own GUI runlevel editor.
Since when has insserv/chkconfig been a Linux standard? I guess I just never
noticed since I have always enjoyed the simplicities of BSD style init
scripts :)
hads
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