Ubuntu Services Management

[A. Khattri]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> Has anyone found the "Right Way" to manage Ubuntu services startup?
> Obviously we can remove the link from rc2.d but I noticed the service
> configuration for Apache2 (found in /etc/default) shows a NO_START
> line.  This reminded me of the COL days where all services had a linked
> startup script in the runlevel and the config file told whether or not
> to really start.
>
> Alternately I've played around with update-rc.d but can't seem to remove
> a service from the runlevel.  When I try I get an error about the script
> still existing in /etc/init.d.  A Duh!

Ive been trying to figure out the same thing. At least chkconfig (RH) and
rc-update (Gentoo) have an easy-to-use syntax compared to update-rc! Did
you try the man page example?

update-rc.d foobar start 20 2 3 4 5 . stop 20 0 1 6 .

Im assuming the "stop" part of this command, stops the service numbered 20
from running in runlevels 0, 1 and 6 but I haven't played with this
myself.

Also, there is no iptables startup script - I can start by hand but what's
the Right Way to do it automatically? I did some Googling and found some
posts discussing how Debian has no iptables init script...


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