Chkconfig utility - any way to bring it back for SYSV users? [Solved]

[BitterTruth]

As per the title. I know it's deprecated and there's various commands you can give use update-rc.d to manage services etc but chkconfig looks like a really cool tool and I can't seem to find it's equivalent (not even on any of the other inits)




this shows all the startup services and what run level they will run at in a nice colour coded table format

Is there any way to package it for mx?

[wdscharff]

MX Tools -> MX Service Manager, nice GUI

[BitterTruth]

MX Tools -> MX Service Manager, nice GUI

hmmm... I'm not seeing that in the XFCE whiskermenu for MX23_SysV_Init_Only_Respin.

What are you running?

EDIT: found it via the wiki which led me to MXPI. Nothing showed up there whilst searching the repos so had to do an apt search and it came up.

@wdscharff many thanks. Never even knew it existed. That's what I get for being on MX19.4 for my daily driver. I wonder what else I'm missing out on. Maybe it is time to move after all.

@Adrian I am curious why it never got pulled down on updates to the mx-apps-* meta package as the wiki said it would. EDIT 2: it shows ufw as enabled but not running, however when i do sudo service ufw status it shows it is running.

[siamhie]

@Adrian I am curious why it never got pulled down on updates to the mx-apps-* meta package as the wiki said it would.

MX Service Manager was never built for MX-19.
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-service-man ... w-mx-tool/

[BitterTruth]

MX Service Manager was never built for MX-19.
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-service-man ... w-mx-tool/

Never said it was:

hmmm... I'm not seeing that in the XFCE whiskermenu for MX23_SysV_Init_Only_Respin.

[siamhie]

MX Service Manager was never built for MX-19.
https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-service-man ... w-mx-tool/

Never said it was:

hmmm... I'm not seeing that in the XFCE whiskermenu for MX23_SysV_Init_Only_Respin.

My bad. I mentioned MX Service Manager only because it was brought up and I thought you were referencing it.

[BitterTruth]

My bad. I mentioned MX Service Manager only because it was brought up and I thought you were referencing it.

No worries. I was in fact referencing MX-S-M as it wasn't showing in my MX23 xfce menu or a repo search. I had to install through apt (no big deal) but the MX-S-M wiki mentioned that it would be pulled in with mx-apps updates which never happened on my end.

[BitterTruth]

Whilst MX-Service-Manager is a brilliant tool nodoubt, I found what I was really looking for and it was already installed:

sysv-rc-conf

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apt info sysv-rc-conf:

Description: SysV init runlevel configuration tool for the terminal
sysv-rc-conf provides a terminal GUI for managing "/etc/rc{runlevel}.d/"
symlinks. The interface comes in two different flavors, one that simply
allows turning services on or off and another that allows for more fine tuned
management of the symlinks. Unlike most runlevel config programs, you can
edit startup scripts for any runlevel, not just your current one.