On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 05:19:37PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 04:26:23PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > >> >> Isn't update-rc.d the way to configure the rc.d scripts? > > > >> > No, it's a way for *maintainer scripts* to manage init scripts. > > > >> >> Or am I old-fashioned. > > > >> > You are using an interface that was never meant for administrator use. > >> > Nowadays there's an 'update-rc.d enable/disable', but even that, I think, > >> > was intended to be a backend for the 'service' command. > > > >> So what *is* the proper UI? > > > > The sensible abstraction for this is 'service' - but it doesn't appear that > > service has support for enable/disable yet :( > > Do other distro's use service for this? > What's the reason update-rc.d is limited to maintainer scripts? No, they use chkconfig.
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