Services & Auto-Updating

[Epps, Aaron M.]

	Thanks for your help.  I was aware that the scripts in /etc/rcX.d existed, but I was wondering what tools Ubuntu uses to manage them.  For example, I know that Red Hat/Fedora uses a program called chkconfig, to manipulate the run levels.  Does Ubuntu not include any kind of tool for configuring runlevels?  If not, I'd recommend including the "Service Configuration" tool from GNOME System Tools, or at least chkconfig.  BTW, you guys (Community/Developers) rock!

Sincerely,
    Former Fedora Core Fan

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Durham
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 4:26 PM
To: Ubuntu Users List
Subject: Re: Services & Auto-Updating

The services running for each runlevel are located in the respective
folders, /etc/rcX.d/ with X meaning the runlevel. There might be an
easier way to do this but I am not sure, I just go in to rc5.d/ (5 is
the default runlevel for ubuntu, multiuser with X) and get rid of what I
know I don't need or want by using this command "update-rc.d -f whatever
remove" you can also add them back by issuing "update-rc.d whatever
defaults"  Now when you do this they will still be running unless you
either stop them via /etc/init.d/ or reboot.  Also use the name
from /etc/init.d/ and not the name with the S or K in front of it
located in the /etc/rcX.d/ directory.  S means start and K means kill so
something like S20gdm would mean that gdm starts but K20gdm would mean
it stops. I hope this helps, I tried to explain this the best I could
but I am not exactly an expert or anything, maybe someone will point out
a simpler solution.
Thanks,
Stephen

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 16:03 -0500, Epps, Aaron M. wrote:
> Two questions...
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>      1. How do I view/edit what services are running for each
>         runlevel?
>      2. Is there a way to have apt automatically run "apt-get update"
>         && "apt-get upgrade" nightly?
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