Re: [webmin-l] Changing service status "start at boot" not working

"Jamie Cameron" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.webmin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 01/Jun/2016 10:03 Alfredo Alcaide <[email protected]> wrote ..
> Hello.
> 
> When changing a service boot status ("System" -> Bootup and Shutdown") from
> "not starting" at boot to "start", although Webmin confirms that the
> changes have been applied, updating the list still marks the service to
> *not* start at boot.
> 
> However, if I want to disable a service, it disables correctly. But I can't
> activate it again afterwards. It happens with several services (example:
> postfix, transmission, dovecot, fail2ban...). I haven't dared to to try to
> change any critical service, just in case.
> 
> I just discovered rcconf and sysv-rc-conf, allowing me to restore the
> scripts in the desired runlevels. Using these utilities, and updating
> afterwards the list of services again in webmin, I see that my changes have
> been applied correctly.
> 
> My system is a Debian 8.4, completly updated, with Webmin 1.801 +
> Virtualmin 5.03. No errors have been logged (and if they have, I don't know
> where to find them).

That seems like a bug. In the Bootup and Shutdown module, what boot system does
it say is in use at the top of the page? It should be something like "upstart" or
"systemd"

 - Jamie


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