Ok folks, for anyone that might be interested, I have written an article on the Linux chkconfig command, and how to use it to manager services on your system. There’s even a little background info on System V and how we got here. Check it out, and I hope you like it.
chkconfig was one of those commands that took me a while to wrap my head around, but once I did, I realized how necessary it is for securing and hardening a server. It enables one to turn off services on every runlevel at one swoop. For me this was a real time saver. Used in conjuction with the ‘grep’ command you can quickly do searches for what is running on various runlevels on your server. Excellent resource.