On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Thilo Six <t....@gmx.de> wrote: > John A. Sullivan III wrote the following on 10.04.2011 01:32 >> >> Once I took the time to learn how to use it, RedHat's chkconfig worked >> very well and it was simple to use (chkconfig <service> on, chkconfig >> <service> off, chkconfig --list <service>, chkconfig --add <service>. I >> wonder if that's what insserv is trying to do. > > Recently there has been a dicussion on debinan-devel about this topic. > People here probably are surprised but updated-rc.d isn´t for the admin. > It´s purpose is for the debian-developer only, used in the package scripts. > > Currently there just doesn´t exist a proper way to handle services in debian. > > Read: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/764253/focus=159015 > > ...but apprently although developers think update-rc.d isn´t for me i use it > still as it is the only periphery usable solution currently.
I've suggested the use of update-rc.d and invoke-rc.d here and on ubuntu-users and been told that they're not meant for users/sysadmins. I hope that your link (thanks; I'll check it out later today) explains why, because I've never seen any bad effects from their use. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTim-yWX_c2a5p3NpPTQjZ88P8=h...@mail.gmail.com
