Ubuntu Server 10.04: enable/disable services on startup

franz.reitinger franz.reitinger at htl-wels.at
Thu Sep 29 09:58:30 UTC 2011


rcconf is your friend offering a semi-graphic UI to enable/disable 
daemons

apt-get install rcconf
/franzR


On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:27:37 +0200, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Short question: what's the "Ubuntu way" of enabling/disabling
> services on startup? Speaking of this, what are the different
> runlevels corresponding to? So far, I'm accustomed to working
> regularly on RHEL and Slackware.
>
> RHEL: runlevel 3 (commandline/multiuser) vs. 5 (graphical/multiuser)
>
> # chkconfig --level 345 <service> on|off
>
> Slackware: runlevel 3 (commandline/multiuser) vs. 4 
> (graphical/multiuser)
>
> # chmod 0755 /etc/rc.d/rc.<service> --> activate
> # chmod 0644 /etc/rc.d/rc.<service> --> deactivate
>
> How are things supposed to work in Ubuntu?
>
> cheers,
>
> Niki
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