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By: Mr.xubuntu

Mr.xubuntu — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:15:19 +0000

Oh.Geeee.

that was not …..

By: vixtor

vixtor — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:22:38 +0000

great review
It make things easier

By: Luke Maciak

Luke Maciak — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:10:34 +0000

Hey Joe! sysv-rc-conf is really a great app! Keep up the good work.

I haven’t checked the CLI options but that really looks useful – especially for scripting. Thanks for the tip!

By: Joe Oppegaard

Joe Oppegaard — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:35:24 +0000

I’m the author of sysv-rc-conf, just ran across this posting. Glad you all like it. I thought I’d add to the discussion regarding chkconfig,

I also had used redhat and liked the chkconfig syntax. So, I built sysv-rc-conf to take the same command line arguments. You can check the man page for more details, but it allows you to modify run levels just like chkconfig without bringing up the TUI.

Ie. sysv-rc-conf --level 2345 apache off Check the USING THE CLI section of the man page for a bit more.

Regarding compatibility, I admit I haven’t checked in a over a year, but I tested this app on a number of non-debian based distros and it worked, specifically I do remember testing with redhat. The COMPATIBILITY section of the man page gives more info on what to check for to see if your distro is compatible.

By: Luke Maciak

Luke Maciak — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:31:04 +0000

That’s what I thought. These kinds of things don’t port seamlessly between distros. Thanks for the info. :)

By: Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy

Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:53:54 +0000

Yes, this is a good tool. I have used it before, albeit I am not a big fan of cursed interfaces. I think this tool is only pre-packaged for Debian though (Ubuntu gets it being Debian derivative), so anybody with Red Hat based system or some SuSe or Mandriva (could be considered RH based ;) ). Is a bit out of luck.
About chkconfig. It is a very Red Hat specific tool and it will NOT work on Ubuntu. The reason for this is that chkconfig relies on startup scripts having a lot of specific and properly formated information in their headers and will not work without them. Debian derivatives have a command line tool called update-rc.d to manipulate sysv startup. It doesn’t have listing capability though.

By: Terminally Incoherent » Blog Archive » Installing Fluxbuntu on Compaq Presario 1240

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:52:06 +0000

[…] So, Fluxbuntu is working. The base system is running at an acceptable speed. I think both Slax and DSL were performing better. This system just feels slower and more cumbersome. I trimmed it down using sysv-rc-conf and removed all the unnecessary daemons and background processes. This made boot times more tolerable, and made the UI a wee bit more responsive. I’m not sure if I can tweak it down from here, but suggestions are always appreciated. I guess the rest is just choice of software you use on the machine. […]