equivalent of chkconfig

[Luis Mondesi]

Exactly for those reasons. 

What we probably would like to see is "update-service" which would wrap all init services into one umbrella. 

update-service --list # shows all services and init running it: runit, upstart, systemd, and sysv to start
update-service <command> <service> [service] # for trying to call "command" for each of the services' init systems. Essentially, same as /sbin/service does in Fedora/RHEL 7 which was missed in Debian/Ubuntu. The difference is that this tool would also work in batch mode and also enable/disable services. 

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Luis

> On Aug 4, 2015, at 17:59, João M. S. Silva <joao.m.santos.silva at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Moreover:
> 
> $ update-rc.d modemmanager enable
> update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/modemmanager: file does not exist
> 
> 
>> 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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