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Red Hat/Debian/Gentoo Startup Commands

Since there are so many similarities and differences between Linux distributions, I put together this quick summary of the differences between the startup commands on a few of the popular distros (Red Hat, Debian/Ubuntu, and Gentoo):

The commands:

Red Hat: chkconfig
Debian: update-rc.d
Gentoo: rc-update

Start on bootup using the defaults:

chkconfig --add foobar
chkconfig foobar on
—
update-rc.d foobar defaults
—
rc-update add foobar default

Explicitly setting run levels (the 30/70 below are the sequence numbers):

chkconfig --level 2345 foobar on
chkconfig --level 016 foobar off
—
update-rc.d foobar start 30 2 3 4 5 . stop 70 0 1 6 .

Disabling/removing a service:

chkconfig foobar off
chkconfig --del foobar
—
update-rc.d foobar stop 20 2 3 4 5 .
update-rc.d -f foobar remove
—
rc-update del foobar

List current settings (no Debian version):

chkconfig --list foobar
—
rc-status --all

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2 Comments


  1. Brandon Checketts says:

    To view startup commands for debian, you can always use:

    ls /etc/rc?.d/

    ;)

    Posted July 27, 2007, 8:21 pm

  2. Kevin Pendleton says:

    Good point, the majority of Linux distributions use the SYS V file system of /etc/rcX.d/ and can be manipulated and displayed directly from the file system.

    Posted July 27, 2007, 10:56 pm

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