Jeffrey Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a general way to disable start up of specific daemons at boot > time.
Delete their startup links in /etc/rc2.d or /etc/rcS.d. > I know I can rip the whole package out, or do a "update-rc.d -f > remove lpd", but is there a more elegant way? What do you actually want? The /etc/rc?.d links are the main way to configure what services get started when; update-rc.d is a tool that manages those, or you can edit them by hand. In most cases, clients and servers come in separate packages, so you can install telnet without installing telnetd. > Some have files in /etc/default with XYZRUN=no. Does this work in > general? This only tends to happen for packages that break the previous model; notable exceptions are ssh (don't know why) and lpr/lpd (traditional Unix model is that you need lpd running on the local host for lpr to work; lprng doesn't have this restriction if you have no local printers). If you have a package that just contains a server, and you never want to use the server, you might as well remove it. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
