I've become very accustomed to managing service startups on Redhat/RHEL platforms using chkconfig
though that doesn't appear to be the Debian/Ubuntu way - How do I update runlevel information for system services on Ubuntu?
Ultimately looking for the equivalents of:
chkconfig --add <service>
chkconfig --level 345 <service> on
chkconfig --del <service>
apt-get install chkconfig
the package on ubuntu as well. However it is broken since years, the following symlink will make it (somewhat) work:ln -s /usr/lib/insserv/insserv /sbin/insserv