On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:10:11PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Jeffrey Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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)
We haven't got around to fixing it yet, pretty much. Nor have I got around to adding /etc/default/ssh as opposed to the /etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run thingy yet; it's on the list along with a couple of hundred other bugs, although somewhat higher up than many of them ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
