equivalent of chkconfig

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 4 August 2015 at 23:28, Luis Mondesi <lemsx1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

service command is available in both debian and ubuntu, and integrated
throughout to work with sysv, upstart and systemd...

> --
> 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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Dimitri.