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I know chkconfig we are not using currently to manager services in Ubuntu but even its a old tool, its a good tool. but recently I've gone through insserv .

All I want to know is what are the main difference between insserv and chkconfig tools.

Thank you.

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chkconfig is just a wrapper and insserv is the actual command.

From the man page of chkconfig:

DESCRIPTION

chkconfig is used to manipulate the runlevel links at boot time (see init.d(7)). It can be thought of as a frontend to insserv(8). Chkconfig can run in six different modes: terse list mode, set mode, edit mode, list mode, add mode and delete mode. The last three modes were added for compatiblity reasons.

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  • so can we maintain run levels with insserv ? – Raja G Dec 26 '14 at 06:02
  • insserv reads the scripts itself and those have the run levels on where to start – Rinzwind Dec 26 '14 at 06:12
  • oh our man pages have a few difference along release: this http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man8/insserv.8.html has a bit about run levels other man page have not – Rinzwind Dec 26 '14 at 06:13