Ubuntu Services Management

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Michael Hipp wrote:

| 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.
|
|
| I've heard great things about 'rcconf'. It supposedly has a really
| nice curses interface for managing startup links. I've been meaning
| to give it a try but haven't gotten around to it yet.
|
| sudo apt-get install rcconf
| sudo rcconf
|
| So far I've been doing mine by the manual method of just removing
| links by handl.
|
That's basically what rcconf is doing.  I just grabbed it and tried
it.  Still, if it keeps me from having to manually do it.

More specifically, it switches the S##service link to a K##service link.
It does this for all runlevels at once (no granular control, at least
not at first glance.)

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