chkconfig

Manage SysV services at boot (RHEL legacy)

medium risk

interactive breakdown — edit the command and press Explain

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⚠ Risks & cautions

Disabling a critical service (network, sshd) breaks the host at next boot.

What it does

Legacy tool for enabling/disabling init scripts; use systemctl on modern systems.

Common flags

Flag	Meaning
`--list` `--list`	Show services and runlevels
`--add` `--add`	Register a service
`--del` `--del`	Remove a service

Examples

chkconfig --listList services · explain & risk-check →

Related

Open the full explainer →More in System & Processes

Reference text is hand-written and may be incomplete — check man chkconfig for your version. Test destructive commands on a non-production system first.