Use rcconf to edit startup/init.d/init scripts on Debian/Ubuntu based distributions

I've never understood how to enable and disable services for different run levels in Debian based distros, it's just weird, annoying and doesn't make sense.  I much prefer chkconfig from RHEL.

Just install the package called 'rcconf' and be done with it.  rcconf makes things easy for you.

apt-get install rcconf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  rcconf
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 19.8kB of archives.
After this operation, 119kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe rcconf 1.21 [19.8kB]
Fetched 19.8kB in 0s (20.6kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package rcconf.
(Reading database ... 195757 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking rcconf (from .../archives/rcconf_1.21_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up rcconf (1.21) ...

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