Re: How can I avoid completion using chkconfig on RHEL10?

["Chris Ross (cross2)" <cross2@xxxxxxxxx>]

It turns out to be more complicated than that.  This machine can’t really even run service.  I mean, if I ask it a very specific and well-formed question it’s okay:

• cross2@build2 ~ ❯ service autofs status
• Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status autofs.service
• ● autofs.service - Automounts filesystems on demand
•      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/autofs.service; enabled; preset: disabled)                                                                                                                                             
•      Active: active (running) since Fri 2026-02-20 12:52:49 EST; 4 days ago
•  Invocation: 99bb6a418769452a9e3466905bbcff88
•    Main PID: 7052 (automount)
•       Tasks: 8 (limit: 3355442)
•      Memory: 28.3M (peak: 37.1M)
•         CPU: 10.000s
•      CGroup: /system.slice/autofs.service
•              └─7052 /usr/sbin/automount --systemd-service --dont-check-daemon
• cross2@build2 ~ ❯

But, if I try to do something like you mention below, it goes “less well”.  

• cross2@build2 ~ ❯ service --status-all
• /etc/init.d/filebeat: line 40: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: No such file or directory
• /etc/init.d/filebeat: line 44: status: command not found
• /etc/init.d/filebeat: line 90: status: command not found
• cross2@build2 ~ ❯ ls -l /etc/rc.d/init.d/
• total 4
• -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1131 Mar  9  2025 README
• cross2@build2 ~ ❯ ls -l /etc/init.d
• total 4
• -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 2602 Nov 15  2022 filebeat
• cross2@build2 ~ ❯ 

Apparently there is an “initscripts” package that will install  these things, and I don’t know why the “filebeat” package is the only thing still supplying an init.d script.  But.  😉

So I’m not sure what to suggest with the _services completer, but a more specific and/or complicated solution may be needed.

I’ll try to cons up a chkconfig() function as you suggested, with what I have that works.

Thanks all.

-Chris

From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, 24 February 2026 at 13:32
To: Chris Ross (cross2) <cross2@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxx <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>, cross+zsh@xxxxxxxxxx <cross+zsh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: How can I avoid completion using chkconfig on RHEL10?

On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 10:12 AM Chris Ross (cross2) <cross2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Anyway.  Has this changed already in more recent versions, and if not, I think it should.  It should at least confirm that chkconfig is an installed command before invoking it.

The _services completer hasn't been updated since 2012, so it probably
is due for some maintenance.

This is a poor but possibly useful substitute in the meantime:
chkconfig() { service --status-all | awk '{print $4}' }

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