Question

I am logged into my server as root and tried to run this command:

# update-rc.d -f tk10xbooting.sh default 5

Here tk10xbooting.sh is a script I want to run at every sever restart. But when I run it, the result is output like this :

update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | SS KK]
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] .
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> disable|enable [S|2|3|4|5]
        -n: not really
        -f: force

The disable|enable API is not stable and might change in the future.

Any idea what’s happening?

Answer 1

The syntax of updte-rc.d (according to the output you gave) is different than you provide:

• you use default which should have been defaults
• -f is only used for the remove command
• you might need to use 05 instead of 5 as the syntax tells that it should be NN (but it might work as 5, I do not know)