With LANG=de_DE, "chkconfig" gives: | chkconfig version 1.0.6 - Copyright (C) 1997 Red Hat Software | Kostenlose Weitergabe unter den Bedingungen der GNU Public License erlaubt. | Verwendung: chkconfig --list [Name] | chkconfig --add <Name> | chkconfig --del <Name> | chkconfig [--level <Ebenen>] <Name> <Ein|Aus|Reset> That's quite false as chkconfig expects "on" and "off" instead of "Ein" and "Aus" and even distinguishes between "reset" and "Reset". The (English only) man page is - of course - correct. Solution: Change the last line to "<on|off|reset>". Most Germans will still get it.
Oh, and it would be nice if chkconfig honored "--help" and "--version" (does not relate to this bug).
Fixed in chkconfig-1.0.6-2. Thanks for the report.