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

2008-04-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Sonntag, 13. April 2008 schrieb Michael Biebl: Is there an (official) upstream homepage for that utility? No, the script is from the RPM package aaa_base, which is something like base-files in Debian, so there is no separate homepage for it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2008-04-12 Thread Michael Biebl
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: chkconfig Version : 10.3-90 Upstream Author : Michael Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : system tool

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

2008-04-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I can mention old bug... On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:25:14PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 schrieb Michael Biebl: What's the advantage over exisiting tools like sysv-rc-conf? 1. chkconfig works solely on the command line.

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

2008-04-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Osamu Aoki wrote: 5. chkconfig works well with the new insserv. Could you elaborate on that? What's the problem with sysv-rc-conf and insserv? Really, I do not use neither but when I was updating Debian Reference for newbie, I thought such tool should help. There were more oroblem using

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

2008-04-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 04:53:52PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: 5. chkconfig works well with the new insserv. Could you elaborate on that? What's the problem with sysv-rc-conf and insserv? Really, I do not use neither but when I was updating Debian Reference for

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

2008-04-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: chkconfig Version : 10.3-90 Upstream Author : Michael Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : system tool to enable or disable system

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

2008-04-10 Thread Evgeni Golov
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:20:52 +0200 Peter Eisentraut wrote: 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

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

2008-04-10 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: chkconfig Version : 10.3-90 Upstream Author : Michael Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : system tool

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

2008-04-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 schrieb Eugene V. Lyubimkin: This tool is already exists now - 'update-rc.d'. What advantages have the chkconfig? They are not the same. Note that the update-rc.d man page says System administrators are not encouraged to use update-rc.d to manage runlevels.

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

2008-04-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: chkconfig Version : 10.3-90 Upstream Author : Michael Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description :

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

2008-04-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 schrieb Evgeni Golov: Just wondering, how does chkconfig compare to (e.g.) rcconf? rcconf is dialog-based, chkconfig is command-line based. Also chkconfig is well known from Red Hat and SUSE, so it will help users coming from those environments. chkconfig also

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

2008-04-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 schrieb Michael Biebl: What's the advantage over exisiting tools like sysv-rc-conf? 1. chkconfig works solely on the command line. 2. sysv-rc-conf is mostly unmaintained and broken for some (of my) practical uses. 3. chkconfig is simpler and more convenient. 4.

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

2008-04-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 schrieb Michael Biebl: What's the advantage over exisiting tools like sysv-rc-conf? 1. chkconfig works solely on the command line. sysv-rc-conf has both a command line interface and a ncurses based interface. I don't see, why command-line

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

2008-04-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2008 schrieb Michael Biebl: 1. chkconfig works solely on the command line. sysv-rc-conf has both a command line interface and a ncurses based interface. OK, I didn't know that. If one were interested in not-Debian-compatibility, which is my primary motivation here,