On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:04:52 -0400, Dan wrote:

> I would like to know which is the standard way to disable services. I
> thought that the standard way is just to delete the link of the service
> from rc*.d

I wondered the same in this thread:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/12/msg00424.html

(that was a very interesting thread were people pointed out several ways 
to achieve the same goal)

> For example to disable bluetooth I would just delete the link
> /etc/rc3.d/S20bluetooth that points to ../init.d/bluetooth
> 
> But then I used service manager from gnome to disable bluetooth. It
> disabled the service but it didn't delete the link. So I guess that
> there is a standard procedure to disable the service without deleting
> the link. Which is that procedure?

I finally disabled the service by issuing "update-rc.d service_name 
disable". Full story here:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/12/msg00505.html

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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