Replacement for rcconf for Ubuntu 10.04

Question

In Ubuntu 10.04, rcconf no longer works for managing services.

Any suggested replacement?

Answer 1

Ubuntu has been migrating their sys-V init scripts to upstart. The tool to manage upstart process is initctl; check its man page. You can call directly its aliases:

/sbin/start
/sbin/status
/sbin/reload
/sbin/stop
/sbin/restart

For example:

start apache2
stop apache2
reload apache2

Answer 2

The rcconf package is still available for Lucid (10.04). You should be able to install it like normal (sudo aptitude/apt-get install rcconf), assuming that you have the universe repositories enabled in your /etc/apt/sources.list. This tool should still work for managing services (or, at least, it does for me).

Answer 3

jobs-admin (and its backend service, jobs-service) is the tool for configuring Upstart scripts. It's not available for 10.04 though. You need 10.10.

Additionally, Ubuntu has no distinction between runlevels other than 0 (halt), 1 (single), and 6 (reboot). Like Debian, it does the same thing for 2-5.

You can change Upstart script dependencies (start-on event, stop-on event, etc) in the service's config file, located at /etc/init/service.conf