Sysvinit Operations

Manage sysvinit services (/etc/init.d).

Facts used in these operations: files.FindLinks, sysvinit.InitdStatus, server.LinuxDistribution.

sysvinit.enable

Manually enable /etc/init.d scripts by creating /etc/rcX.d/Y links.

sysvinit.enable(
    service: str, start_priority=20, stop_priority=80, start_levels=(2, 3, 4, 5),
    stop_levels=(0, 1, 6), **kwargs,
)

• service: name of the service to enable

• start_priority: priority to start the service

• stop_priority: priority to stop the service

• start_levels: which runlevels should the service run when enabled

• stop_levels: which runlevels should the service stop when enabled

Example:

init.d_enable(
    name="Finer control on which runlevels rsyslog should run",
    service="rsyslog",
    start_levels=(3, 4, 5),
    stop_levels=(0, 1, 2, 6),
)

Note:

This operation also inherits all global arguments.

sysvinit.service

Manage the state of SysV Init (/etc/init.d) services.

sysvinit.service(
    service: str, running=True, restarted=False, reloaded=False, enabled: bool | None=None,
    command: str | None=None, **kwargs,
)

• service: name of the service to manage

• running: whether the service should be running

• restarted: whether the service should be restarted

• reloaded: whether the service should be reloaded

• enabled: whether this service should be enabled/disabled

• command: command (eg. reload) to run like: /etc/init.d/<service> <command>

Enabled:

Because managing /etc/rc.d/X files is a mess, only certain Linux distributions support enabling/disabling services:

• Ubuntu/Debian (update-rc.d)

• CentOS/Fedora/RHEL (chkconfig)

• Gentoo (rc-update)

For other distributions and more granular service control, see the sysvinit.enable operation.

Example:

sysvinit.service(
    name="Restart and enable rsyslog",
    service="rsyslog",
    restarted=True,
    enabled=True,
)

Note:

This operation also inherits all global arguments.