Hi,
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001, Alan Chen wrote:
> Just as an excercise to my own sys admin knowledge, I'll summarize my
> general knowledge and just ask if anyone has suggestions or differences
> in my understanding.
>
> Daemons (or services) can be manually manipulated in debian using
> /etc/init.d/<daemon> with the command start, stop, restart, etc..
>
> This will only change what is currently running. If you reboot,
> whatever was configured for your runlevel will be started again.
> rcS.d/ is stuff started for every runlevel
> rcn.d/ lists runlevel specific daemons that are started at boot
>
> update-alternatives (or was it alternatives-update) is a admin tool for
> adding, removing daemons from various runlevels.
Don't you mean update-rc.d?
According to the man page:
update-alternatives creates, removes, maintains and dis-
plays information about the symbolic links comprising the
Debian alternatives system.
Thus, update-alternatives was meant for specifying which option is
associated with the generic name. In other words editor can link to
emacs, vi, vim, nano, etc.; x-window-manager can link to fvwm,
blackbox, etc.
>
> To remove a daemon from starting at a given runlevel, i generally just
> delete the entry in the /etc/rcn.d directory. Are there any reasons
> for not doing that? I wish the update-alternatives would accept syntax
> like "update-alternatives +3 postres" to add postgres to runlevel 3.
> Maybe it does, it's been a while since I last used it.
I think what you want is update-rc.d:
update-rc.d foobar start 20 2 3 4 5 . stop 20 0 1 6
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/sbin/update-rc.d --help
usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove
update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> defaults [NN | sNN kNN]
update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl runlvl . ...
-n: not really
-f: force
Hope this helps,
Take care,
Daniel
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Daniel A. Freedman
Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics
Department of Physics
Cornell University
