Re: Admin tools [was: Don't implement config functionality]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 03:18:42PM +0300, Martin Atukunda wrote:
> On Saturday 17 January 2004 20:20, Simon Edwards wrote:
> > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 03:13 am, Juanjo Alvarez wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:59:25PM +0000, Simon Edwards wrote:
> > > > I also have a daemon/system service util that works
> > > > well on Mandrake and needs to be ported to Debian. (It looks easy
> > > > enough judging from Knoppix).
> > >
> > > It's almost the same (SysV init), the only thing that you have to
> > > consider (from the screenshots in your page) is than in Debian there is
> > > not "5=graphical boot, 2=non-graphical boot"  and the default runlevel
> > > (graphical or not) is 2. To see if you are in Debian within your code
> > > you can check for the file /etc/debian_version.
> >
> > serviceconfig.py uses 'chkconfig' to turn services on/off. I have a feeling
> > that it is part of the Linux Standard Base spec.
> <snip>
> I believe Debian uses /usr/sbin/update-rc.d, and /usr/sbin/install-rc.d to 
> manage the init scripts.

Yes for update-rc.d (I didn't knew about install-rc.d and it is not in
my system) but I think it would be clearer and even easier to update the
links directly on Debian (update-rc.d is a little shell script that just
do that).