update-rcconf-guide(8)

update-rcconf-guide8

Create default guide file for rcconf

Usage

update-rcconf-guide

Overview

Update-rcconf-guide creates the default guide file which rcconf uses.

Update-rcconf-guide searches the package names corresponding to each service file in /etc/init.d directory from dpkg info files(/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list) and get the description of these packages using apt-cache. Update-rcconf-guide uses Short-Description in priority to the description if service files has Short-Description field. Update-rcconf-guide writes those results to /var/lib/rcconf/guide.default file.

You can write your own guide in user guide file(/var/lib/rcconf/guide) by hand. Rcconf refers Guides in /var/lib/rcconf/guide before those in /var/lib/rcconf/guide.default.

If you install some packages after executed update-rcconf-guide, you need to re-create this file using update-rcconf-guide so as to refresh guide.default that includes new guides for installed new services.

Notice: update-rcconf-guide was not executed when you installed rcconf
package.

File

/var/lib/rcconf/guide.default

Guide File update-rcconf-guide generates.

/var/lib/rcconf/guide

Guide File user(Administrator) can define.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0–7
  5. 8
  6. 9
  7. 10–12

Author

Atsushi KAMOSHIDA <[email protected]>

From rcconf 3.2+nmu1 in Debian 12 (Bookworm). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.