Debian startup services

[d4mo]

Hey guys. I'm a Gentoo guy, but for this project I'm using Debian for certain reasons. I'm only using command line so no GUI or anything. My question is does debian have a command to view and change commands that run at the startup? Like gentoo has rc-status and rc-update.

Also how do you list installed apps? Is it with apt-cache?

 

[n0cmonkey]

ls /etc/rc?.d/S* (replace the ? with the runlevel you're using)

man dpkg - There's a way to list installed packages in there somewhere. I forget it offhand though.

 

[Nothinman]

There's update-rc.d but I think most people just manage the symlinks themselves.

'dpkg -l | grep ^ii' will list all installed packages. Although I usually just stick to aptitude.

 

[drag]

In Debian all your scripts are stored in /etc/init.d/ and then each run level is /etc/rc0.d/, /etc/rc3.d and similar.

I usually just manage symbolic links manually.

 

[cleverhandle]

apt-get install sysv-rc-conf

 

[acaeti]

This website tells you how to set a service to start at a certain run level:

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In general Debian Administration is a great learning tool. It has helped me immensely.