I've found sysv-rc-conf is about as useful as it gets on deb/buntu
and frankly can't stand their paradyme (of renaming S-to-K blah...)
That's why I just chmod.

On RH though, chkconfig just plain does it all 'automagically' 

There's so much about 'untu in the /etc dept. that I find lacking.
Softlink hell, etc/network/interfaces compared to the RH way in sysconfig ...
I also like the way RH applies init.d/scriptname status
where deb/untu does not. Trivial really, to implement.

Sometimes using the kludge is so much easier, specially when you install an
app/service that you don't want started at boot, or ever FTM..

Rion

On Saturday 24 January 2009, Anthony Carrico wrote:
> Rubin Bennett wrote:
> > The 'right' way is to rename the script from S99scriptname to
> > s99scriptname.  Scripts with a lowercase beginning character are
> > automagically ignored by init.
> 
> Brilliant. S's to start and K's stop. Lowercase s's are ignored, but
> serve as a cache of disabled S's. Give that man a prize.
> 
> > You can also 'chkconfig scriptname off' if your system uses chkconfig.
> > You can tell if it uses chkconfig by running 'chkconfig scriptname
> > --list'
> 
> A foreigner on Debian (and its derivatives like Ubuntu), but
> sysv-rc-conf is closest, and sysv-rc-conf caches values in
> /var/lib/sysv-rc-conf/services. One side effect of that is --list
> doesn't work until root runs it. I think changing s-to-S or S-to-s would
> be nicer. I didn't see anything sanctioning the lowercase s in the
> Debian manuals, so that may be the reason.
> 


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