On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Mark Wagnon wrote: > It seems to be still in the netbase package. I can't find a separate > portmap package. Hmmm. Maybe I misunderstood you. Yeah, there are > different scripts that separate the networking stuff, but the > portmap binary still comes packaged in the netbase deb.
Yep, sorry I wasn't too clear on that. I just meant that the scripts are split out, so instead of having to clutter up your netbase script with comments you can keep it clean and just do something with your portmap script. > I'll take a look at the portmap script. I thought that the links in > the rc*.d directories ran the scripts in /etc/init.d at different > run-levels and that renaming one would stop that script from > executing. Right? Wrong? You are right. Here's how I deal with it, others may have a better way but this works great for me. I made a directory /etc/init.d/Disabled and whenever I want to disable a startup script, well, I just put it in there. :) The "correct" way to do it is to use update-rc.d (with args) to remove the /etc/rc#.d symlinks, but I don't do it that way because putting the scripts in a separate directory makes it easier for me to remember what I've disabled. I can just look in that dir and see that I've disabled nfs, sendmail, blah blah blah. If I want to re-enabled them for boot-time, I just put them back into /etc/init.d/.
