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.Dd March 13, 2001 .Dt CHKCONFIG 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm chkconfig .Nd rc.conf.d management utility .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Ar service .Nm .Op Fl f .Ar service .Op Ar on | off .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility allows a system administrator to easily manage services started by .Xr rc 8 .
p With no arguments, .Nm will print the state (on or off) of every service found in the directory
a /etc/rc.conf.d/ . The settings will be shown sorted according to the output of .Xr rcorder 8 .
p If the .Ar service is specified as the sole argument, .Nm exits with status 0 if the service is .Sq on and status 1 if .Sq off . The exit status may be used by shell scripts to test the state of a service, for example: d -literal -offset indent if chkconfig wscons; then echo "wscons is on" else echo "wscons is off" fi .Ed
p The optional third argument allows the specified service to be set to .Sq on or .Sq off for the next time its .Xr rc.d 8 script is run (generally the next system reboot).
p In order for .Nm to display service status or to control service state, the service must be managed by .Nm . A .Nm managed service is one that has the .Xr rcorder 8 keyword .Dq chkconfig present in the .Xr rc.d 8 script for that service. If a service's script does not contain this keyword, it may still be managed by .Nm using the .Fl f flag. When this flag is used, .Nm will automatically add the .Dq chkconfig keyword to the service's script. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr rc 8 , .Xr rcorder 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm command first appeared in .Nx 1.6 . .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm program was written by .An Dan Mercer .Aq dmercer@zembu.com of Zembu Labs, Inc. .Sh BUGS The .Nm program currently does not support configuring the options to be passed to services upon startup.