Manually Configuring Startup Services
You need to manually configure your startup services, either because you think using these fancy-schmancy utilities like update-rc.d to manage your runlevels is sissy, you don't care for the utility that your Linux distribution provides, or you're stuck on some strange barebones system with no helpful utilities.
Create entries in the /rc*.d directories with the ln command. Delete entries for services that are not going to be used at all.
As an example, let's create a nice soft link to start up CUPS in runlevel 3:
# ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S90cups
Now repeat this for every runlevel. Don't forget the "kill" runlevels:
# ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K01cups
You need to manually configure your startup services, either because you think using these fancy-schmancy utilities like update-rc.d to manage your runlevels is sissy, you don't care for the utility that your Linux distribution provides, or you're stuck on some strange barebones system with no helpful utilities.
Create entries in the /rc*.d directories with the ln command. Delete entries for services that are not going to be used at all.
As an example, let's create a nice soft link to start up CUPS in runlevel 3:
# ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S90cups
Now repeat this for every runlevel. Don't forget the "kill" runlevels:
# ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K01cups
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