Comments on: Debian or Ubuntu Linux runlevel configuration tool to start service

By: Ali

Ali — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:44:04 +0000

Hi,

I have a Debian server and I installed a Tomcat on it. I used:
update-rc.d tomcat defaults
to install Tomcat as service but my Tomcat only started when I logging to my server with ssh.

how can I srat this service automatically?

Ali

By: Sebastian Colomar

Sebastian Colomar — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:48:24 +0000

Thank you :-)

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:27:07 +0000

Coming from a RHEL enviornment, chkconfig was an awesome way to maintain services and their run levels and this post was very helpful for me to find the Ubuntu equivalent (update-rc.d) in my new environment.

SIDE NOTE: apt-get install chkconfig will install chkconfig for us RHEL admins that can’t/refuse to make the jump to Ubuntu, but have to admin them.

By: roger

roger — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:47:37 +0000

Old post but still helpful and relevant. For new users, they may not notice running rcconf as non root will return a permission denied error, thus not changes. Best to run

sudo rcconf

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:16:39 +0000

So whats the runlevel change command or is that covered somewhere else.

By: Balaviswanathan.V

Balaviswanathan.V — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:13:22 +0000

@Bob

In Ubuntu 9.04 , you need not have to install this package as we can start the service by

$ sudo service networking restart

Thanks and Regards

Bala

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:40:05 +0000

thanks!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:23:34 +0000

Yeah this still works. Ubuntu 9.04 over here and still works. Im not sure for how long given that this functionality is only possible with upstart’s init.d compatibility mode.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:03:58 +0000

Does all this still work on Ubuntu with their who upstart way of starting services that they use now?

By: V.Balaviswanathan

V.Balaviswanathan — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:38:25 +0000

Thanks a lot for this info.. It worked for me

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:41:35 +0000

Nathan,

Typo is corrected. Thanks for the heads up :)

By: nathan

nathan — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:07:23 +0000

small typo should be
$ sudo apt-get install rcconf
you are missing the a