Am 23. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Siri Amrit Kaur so:

> Besides the BSD's, are there any Linux distros _NOT_ based on
> Slackware that use the BSD-style init scripts? The BSD-style of init
> scripts is one of my chief reasons for using Slackware.
>
> Most distros use SysV, and by default turn on a lot of services that I
> don't need or want. Except for Mandrake or PCLOS, which make it easy
> to turn off unneeded services, I find it confusing and hard to turn
> off services in a SysV system. I like Mepis and Ubuntu, but because
> they're Debian-based they use SysV-style init scripts and I can't
> figure out how to turn off unneeded services.

update-rc.d is the debian tool for changing which services run at
different runlevels. It handles the runlevel symlinks for you.

It looks like ksysv that Matt mentioned is a GUI frontend for update-rc.d.

Looks like rcconf that Matt mentioned is also a frontend for update-rc.d.
Not sure what TUI is. Text User Interface? Tk User Interface?

update-inetd changes what services are handled by inetd. Watch for those
as they hide a few things in there. Most really are irrelevant, but I turn
them off anyway.

update-* scripts for debian are great. I try to update-<tab><tab> from the
command line once in a while just to see what they've added :).

I do not know if mepis and ubuntu still use these scripts. I will need to
be looking into that.

ciao,

der.hans
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