[TriLUG] Re: rc.X -- how do the real sysadmins do it?

[Lance A. Brown]

On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 09:16, Ryan Leathers wrote:
> Now I'm wondering... rather than just removing the scripts I don't want
> is there some convention I should be following to retain these scripts
> that are not actively used?  I could come up with my own system, but
> since this cluster will likely be around long after I'm gone I want to
> do my successors a favor and observe convention if it exists.

Redhat provides /sbin/chkconfig to manage rc.X services.  You can easily
enable/disable services for each run level, and add/remove services
completely from the system.

man chkconfig for all the fun details.

--[Lance]

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