Rcconf allows you to control which services are started when the
system boots up or reboots. It displays a menu of all the services
which could be started at boot. The ones that are configured to
do so are marked and you can toggle individual services on and off.
Rcconf gets a list of services from /etc/init.d and looks in the
/etc/rc?.d directories to determine whether each service is on or off.
Rcconf detects ON state by existence of /etc/rc?.d/``S''NNname.
If the number(NN of /etc/rc?.d/[SK]NNname) is not 20(default), rcconf
saves the service name and the number in /var/lib/rcconf/services so
as to be able to restore the service to its original configuration.
If you purge rcconf package by 'dpkg --purge' or 'aptitude purge' or
others, you may lose off state package due to deletion of
/var/lib/rcconf/services.
OPTIONS
--help
Print out a usage message.
--dialog
Use dialog command to display menu
--whiptail
Use whiptail command to display menu
--notermcheck
Do not set window size by terminal property.
--on service[,service,...]
Set services to be on.
This option enables rcconf in command line mode and no select menu
will be displayed.
--off service[,service,...]
Set services to be off.
This option enables rcconf in command line mode and no select menu
will be displayed.
--list
List services which includes current status(on/off).
This option enables rcconf in command line mode and no select menu
will be displayed. Use --expert option together if you want to
list all services.
This result can be used as config_file of --config.
--configconfig_file
Set services on/off according to config_file.
This option enables rcconf in command line mode and no select menu
will be displayed. The format of this config file is
``service_name on'' or ``service_name off'' in each line. Refer to the
result of --list.
--expert
Show and select all services for experts. In default, rcconf doesn't
display system default services as a candidate such as mountall.sh to
hide unnecessary services for users(but very important for system).
The list of which services are considered expert can be
found at the line @expertonly in /usr/sbin/rcconf.
--now
For each service that had the links changed, call the corresponding
/etc/init.d/service-name script using invoke-rc.d, so the package
starts or stops immediately. If you do not use this option, the
changes will only take effect the next time you reboot (or change
runlevel).
--verbose
Output verbose messages.
Guide File
Rcconf can display some description(Guide) for each services
with Guide File.
Guide File is placed on /var/lib/rcconf/guide, and
this Guide File does not exist by default.
If you want to use Guide, you need to define guides for each services
in this file.
If you run update-rcconf-guide before rcconf,
rcconf can use default guides derived from package description.
Update-rcconf-guide generates the file '/var/lib/rcconf/guide.default' from
package description(only uses first line of it) using apt-cache.
Rcconf refers Guides in /var/lib/rcconf/guide before
/var/lib/rcconf/guide.default.
If you install some packages after executed update-rcconf-guide,
you need to re-create this file using
update-rcconf-guide so as to refresh guide.default that includes new
guides for installed new services.
Updating /etc/rd?.c/ by the package(KNOWN PROBLEM)
Rcconf saves /etc/rc?.d/[SK]NNname conditions into /var/lib/rcconf/services.
This file is updated only when there exists /etc/rc?.d/SNNname. It means that
the condition is not saved if /etc/rc?.d/SNNname doesn't exist for the package.
If the old version of the package creates both /etc/rc?.d/SNNname and
/etc/rc?.d/KNNname but the newer(updated) version of the package creates only
/etc/rc?.d/KNNname, some stupid condition occurs. That is, rcconf displays
this package as OFF state even as the updated package doesn't have
/etc/rc?.d/SNNname. That is because rcconf can't detect disappearance of
/etc/rc?.d/SNNname and previous /etc/rc?.d/SNNname condition remains in
/var/lib/rcconf/services for restore.
In that situation, remove the entry(corresponding package line) from
/var/lib/rcconf/services.