UPDATE-RCCONF-GUIDE(8)

NAME
update-rcconf-guide - Create default guide file for rcconf

SYNOPSIS
update-rcconf-guide

DESCRIPTION
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.

SEE ALSO
rcconf(8)

AUTHOR
Atsushi KAMOSHIDA <kamop@debian.org>