[ILUG] Stupid swat question

[Kenn Humborg]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:17:55PM +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 05:17:12PM -0000, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> 
> > In RedHat-speak (and LSB-speak, AFAIK), you want to do:
> > 
> >    # chkconfig swat on
> 
> It seems tha chkconfig is NOT an LSBism. Contents of /sbin/chkconfig on this
> SuSE7.3 box
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # /sbin/chkconfig is for RedHat based systems only. The method is
> # not compatible with SuSE Linux, since we use LSB conform init
> # scripts. There is no way to convert chkconfig based init scripts
> # to LSB conform one. You have to do it yourself (look at
> # /etc/init.d/skeleton for a good documented example).
> #
> # This file here is only to make RPM happy and to give user the
> # chance to install RPMs which requieres /sbin/chkconfig.
> exit 0
> 

Dammit - now my short term memory is going bad...

I stand corrected.  chkconfig is partly superseded by 
/usr/lib/lsb/{install,remove}_initd in the LSB
(http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.1.0/gLSB/initsrcinstrm.html)
which covers chkconfig --add and --del.

Switching services on and off is left to distribution-specific
tools.

Later,
Kenn