RC-UPDATE(8)

🎀 RC-UPDATE(8) 🎀

okay bestie, this is RC-UPDATE(8) from the System Manager's Manual, and it's here to help you add and remove services to and from runlevels without touching some obscure file or managing a directory of symlinks. ✨

✨ NAME ✨

rc-update — add and remove services to and from a runlevel 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rc-update [-s, --stack] add service [runlevel ...]
rc-update [-s, --stack] [-a, --all] delete service [runlevel ...]
rc-update [-u, --update] [-v, --verbose] show [runlevel ...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

OpenRC uses named runlevels. Instead of editing some obscure file or managing a directory of symlinks, rc-update exists to quickly add or delete services to and from different runlevels. All services must reside in the /etc/init.d or /usr/local/etc/init.d directories. They must also be standard OpenRC scripts, meaning they must use openrc-run.

• add service — Add the service to the runlevel or the current one if none given. Services added to the boot runlevel must exist in /etc/init.d.
• delete service — Delete the service from the runlevel or the current one if none given.
• show — Show all enabled services and the runlevels they belong to. If you specify runlevels to show, then only those will be included in the output.
• -v, --verbose — Show all services.
• -u, --update — Forces an update of the dependency tree cache. This may be needed in the event of clock skew (a file in /etc is newer than the system clock).

If the -s, --stack option is given then we either add or remove the runlevel from the runlevel. This allows inheritance of runlevels. 🫶

If the -a, --all option is given, we remove the service from all runlevels. This is useful, for example, to clean up the dangling symlinks after a service is removed. 💀

bestie note: keep those paths and that openrc-run requirement in mind — standard OpenRC scripts only, no cap. 💅

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

openrc(8), openrc-run(8), rc-status(8) 🌈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
• The OpenRC Team <openrc@gentoo.org>

💖 okay that's the whole page — big mwah from OpenRC, dated Jan 13, 2014. slay and bye 💖