On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 08:27:25PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Bruce Ferrell writes:
>
> > [...]
> >
> > If I understand the original question "how to I get sysV init to not
> > start a process present in the init system", There is a command,
> > chkconfig:
>
> Make that: "there *was* a command, chkconfig:"
>
> It's no longer present in Debian stable (stretch) and later. You can
> still find it in oldstable (jessie) though. See
>
> https://packages.debian.org/search?arch=any&searchon=contents&keywords=chkconfig
>
> # Searching in unstable (sid) lists the command for a small subset of
> # architectures but a chkconfig package does not seem to exist ...

Why would this have been removed? Is it no longer wanted for systemd
users? Or is there some other, perhaps legitimately technical, reason
for its removal?

-- hendrik