Why is chkconfig no longer available in Ubuntu?

Question:

　　

　　I can not use chkconfig tools in Ubuntu 12.10

　　It's a very useful tools to configure the service to autostart or not. Why is it no longer available?

Answer:

　　

sysv-rc-conf is an alternate option for Ubuntu.

The usage is almost the same.

To install:

sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf

To configure apache2 to start on boot

sysv-rc-conf apache2 on

equivalent chkconfig command

chkconfig apache2 enable

To check runlevels apache2 is configured to start on

sysv-rc-conf --list apache2

equivalent chkconfig command

chkconfig --list apache2

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The command chkconfig is no longer available in Ubuntu.The equivalent command to chkconfigis update-rc.d.This command nearly supports all the new versions of ubuntu.

The similar commands are

update-rc.d <service> defaults

update-rc.d <service> start 20 3 4 5

update-rc.d -f <service>  remove