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Autor: Olaf Meeuwissen
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A: Stephan Seitz
CC: dng
Assumpte: Re: [DNG] Command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting daemon
Hi,

Stephan Seitz writes:

> On Di, Okt 23, 2018 at 08:16:51 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 08:27:25PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>>> 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?
>
> As far as I know chkconfig was never a Debian tool. I only know it from
> RPM distros.


I had the same impression. So much so actually, that I was going to
reply that chkconfig was an RPM distro-only tool until I fact checked.

> Maybe someone tried to include chkconfig in Debian, but gave
> up later. Or it never really worked.


Hope this helps,
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