I am running Ubuntu 13.10, and I'm pretty new to Linux. I tried:
$ sudo apt-get install chkconfig
Package chkconfig is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source
E: Package 'chkconfig' has no installation candidate
I manually downloaded the package and unzipped it. The resulting folder has a file called:
chkconfig.install
But how do I run this? I tried this, but it didn't work.
$ sudo chkconfig.install
The command chkconfig
is no longer available in Ubuntu.The equivalent command to chkconfig
is update-rc.d
.This command nearly supports all the new versions of ubuntu.
The similar commands are
update-rc.d <service> defaults
update-rc.d <service> start 20 3 4 5
update-rc.d -f <service> remove
sysv-rc-conf is an alternate option for Ubuntu.
sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf
sysv-rc-conf --list xxxx
Install this package in Ubuntu
:
apt install sysv-rc-conf
its a substitute for chkconfig
cmd.
After install run this cmd:
sysv-rc-conf --list
It'll show all services in all the runlevels. You can also run this:
sysv-rc-conf --level (runlevel number ex:1 2 3 4 5 6 )
Now you can choose which service should be active in boot time.
But how do I run this? I tried typing:
sudo chkconfig.install
which doesn't work.
I'm not sure where you got this package or what it contains; A url of download would be helpful. Without being able to look at the contents of chkconfig.install; I'm surprised to find a unix tool like chkconfig to be bundled in a zip archive, maybe it is still yet to be uncompressed, a tar.gz? but maybe it is a shell script?
I should suggest editing it and seeing what you are executing.
sh chkconfig.install
or ./chkconfig.install
; which might work....but my suggestion would be to learn to use update-rc.d as the other answers have suggested but do not speak directly to the question...which is pretty hard to answer without being able to look at the data yourself.
alias chkconfig=sysv-rc-conf
chkconfig --list
syntax
sysv-rc-conf command line usage:
sysv-rc-conf --list [service name]
sysv-rc-conf [--level <runlevels>] <service name> <on|off>
In Ubuntu /etc/init.d has been replaced by /usr/lib/systemd. Scripts can still be started and stoped by 'service'. But the primary command is now 'systemctl'. The chkconfig command was left behind, and now you do this with systemctl.
So instead of:
chkconfig enable apache2
You should look for the service name, and then enable it
systemctl status apache2
systemctl enable apache2.service
Systemd has become more friendly about figuring out if you have a systemd script, or an /etc/init.d script, and doing the right thing.
Chkconfig is no longer available in Ubuntu.
Chkconfig is a script. You can download it from here.
As mentioned by @jerry you can add services with the below command.
update-rc.d <service> defaults
update-rc.d <service> start 20 3 4 5
update-rc.d -f <service> remove
To validate them check the above commands you can check /etc/rc*.d/ directory where service start with "k" means it will not execute during the boot and service start with "S" will start during the boot.
# for runlevel symlinks:
ls /etc/rc*.d/
In the below screenshot you can see apache2 starting in runlevel2(S02apache2) and stopping in runlevel1(K01apache2)
You can also check the service status with the below command where "+" means service is in running state "-" is in stopped.
service --status-all
OR
install sysv-rc-conf utility.
apt-get install sysv-rc-conf
example
sysv-rc-conf --level 2345 apach22 on
man sysv-rc-conf
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