svlug_chkconfig_and_debian_alternative

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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:10:02 -0800
From: Marc MERLIN <marc_news@valinux.com>
To: Deirdre Saoirse <deirdre@deirdre.net>
Cc: Vince Duperron <duperron@charter.net>, svlug@lists.svlug.org
Subject: Re: chkconfig was Re: [svlug] debian patch

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 05:31:33PM -0800, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Vince Duperron wrote:
> 
> > the software I want.  I find some things quite different about
> > debian than some of the other unix's I am familiar with.  Where is
> > chkconfig? for example, and I am still getting used to dpkg.
> 
> Afaik, chkconfig is a Red Hat-ism. Not that it's a bad thing, I rather
> like it myself.

Under debian, it's
update-rc.d service defaults
(or whatever you want)

But  yes, it'd  be better  if  you didn't  have  to specify  default or  the
runlevels and store that in the init script itself like chkconfig does.

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