chkconfig — Update/Show runlevel information for system services.

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ndiX (Indian Language support for GNU/Linux OS), A modified X server
to support Indian languages using OpenType Fonts. Uses Unicode.
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chkconfig — Update/Show runlevel information for system services.

Summary:

‘chkconfig’ provides a simple command-line tool for maintaining the
/etc/rc[0-6].d directory hierarchy by relieving system administrators
of the task of directly manipulating the numerous symbolic links in
those directories.

A runlevel is a software configuration of the system which allows only
a selected group of processes to exist (man init).

Examples:

$ chkconfig –list — List runlevel info for all system services.

$ chkconfig –list xinetd — List runlevel info of xinetd service.

# chkconfig –add newser — Add a new service for management.

# chkconfig –del oldser — Remove this services symbolic links from

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?all rc[0-6].d Dirs.

# chkconfig –level 35 xinetd on — Start the xinetd service only in
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?runlevel 3 and 5.

Read: man chkconfig

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