Hi, Stephan Seitz writes:
> On Di, Okt 23, 2018 at 08:16:51 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 08:27:25PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >>> Make that: "there *was* a command, chkconfig:" >>> >>> It's no longer present in Debian stable (stretch) and later. You can >>> still find it in oldstable (jessie) though. See >>> >>> >>> https://packages.debian.org/search?arch=any&searchon=contents&keywords=chkconfig >>> >>> # Searching in unstable (sid) lists the command for a small subset of >>> # architectures but a chkconfig package does not seem to exist ... >> >>Why would this have been removed? Is it no longer wanted for systemd >>users? Or is there some other, perhaps legitimately technical, reason >>for its removal? > > As far as I know chkconfig was never a Debian tool. I only know it from > RPM distros. I had the same impression. So much so actually, that I was going to reply that chkconfig was an RPM distro-only tool until I fact checked. > Maybe someone tried to include chkconfig in Debian, but gave > up later. Or it never really worked. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
