equivalent of chkconfig

[Tom H]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:56 AM, João M. S. Silva
<joao.m.santos.silva at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The specific problem here is that modemmanager depends on network-manager:
>
> $ cat /etc/init/modemmanager.conf
> (...)
> start on starting network-manager
> stop on stopped network-manager
> (...)
>
> But I don't need network-manager and all of its dependencies on this server.
>
> I'd just like to start modemmanager at boot without network-manager
> installed. But this seems not possible unless I manually edit the .conf
> file.

Please bottom-post.

If modemmanager can function without networkmanager, you can create
"/etc/init/modemmanager.override" with different start/stop
conditions.