equivalent of chkconfig

[João M. S. Silva]

I would be happy with systemctl. For me, that would be fine. But, from 
what I'm just looking at, I can't use systemd yet (I'm on Ubuntu 14.04.2).

So I'm stuck with upstart.

The most adequate answer seems: 
http://askubuntu.com/questions/19320/how-to-enable-or-disable-services 
but even that doesn't convince me. Creating the .override file is clumsy 
and does not allow to enable a service.

Running the service from rc.local is very dirty and I guess wrong (when 
does it stop? when exactly does it start?).

Should I manually edit the /etc/init/modemmanager.conf file and remove 
its dependence on network-manager? That's a way, but also does not 
satisfy me 100 %.

I feel there should be a better way...

On 08/04/2015 10:34 PM, Luis Mondesi wrote:
> I believe RHEL 7 does the right thing with chkconfig. It's simply an
> abstraction. Systemctl is fine, but that's probably overkill for simply
> turning things on or off.
>
> systemctl status foo
> systemctl disable foo
> systemctl stop foo
>
> As opposed to:
> chkconfig foo off
>
> My guess is that it should be relatively simple to write your own
> wrapper once you know what you're doing. However, to keep things simple
> for everybody else, it's better to have somebody who knows better
> actually write this wrapper for the rest of us. That way the
> documentation stays simple for all future init replacements. Makes the
> vendors happy as well as the end users.
>
> Just my 2 cents...
>
> --
> Luis
>
> On Aug 4, 2015, at 16:09, Martinx - ジェームズ
> <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com <mailto:thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Does chkconfig still works with systemd?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015, 16:59 João M. S. Silva
>> <joao.m.santos.silva at gmail.com <mailto:joao.m.santos.silva at gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     What do you mean?
>>
>>     Installing chkconfig in Ubuntu?
>>
>>     On 08/04/2015 08:51 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote:
>>     > On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 05:38:03PM +0100, João M. S. Silva wrote:
>>     >> Hi,
>>     >>
>>     >> I suggest an equivalent of Fedora's chkconfig for server startup
>>     >> service administration.
>>     >>
>>     >> It seems strange that a simple solution for this problem does not
>>     >> already exist, but from all the questions that I've checked, that
>>     >> seems the case:
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     http://askubuntu.com/questions/656496/how-to-enable-disable-startup-services-in-ubuntu
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     http://askubuntu.com/questions/19320/how-to-enable-or-disable-services?lq=1
>>     >>
>>     >> etc.
>>     >
>>     > Something wrong with downloading/installing it from a repo?
>>     >
>>
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