Planet Malaysia Blog

Basically the command 'chkconfig' use to updates and queries runlevel information for system services in Linux. The 'chkconfig'  command 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.

I'm noticed a different between 'chkconfig' in SLES9 and SLES10. In short, SLES9 and SLES10 running on different version of RPM packages that show different result. Sorry, I'm not sure about the details.

For example:

In SLES 9
chkconfig –list |grep sysstat
sysstat 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off

In SLES 10
chkconfig –list |grep sysstat
sysstat 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off B:on

Do you see the different between this 2 example as show above?
SLES10 or aaa_base-10-12.26 use to have additional detail for BOOT=ON/OFF process that can either be found in /etc/init.d/boot.d folder.

So how to check in SLES9, type yast runlevel -> select expert mode and browse from there OR cd /etc/init.d/boot.d/ and search for Sxxsysstat
Additional detail about chkconfig
In SLES9
rpm -qf /sbin/chkconfig
aaa_base-9-29.46

In SLES 10
rpm -qf /sbin/chkconfig
aaa_base-10-12.26

chkconfig provider by aaa_base RPM packages.

Enjoy!

Possibly Related Posts:

• RSS Feed Submissions
• Geo Positions
• Interesting about Google Suggest
• Setup a Linux Highly Availability NFS servers
• How to find empty folders on Linux