Re: Temporaly disable program

1999-05-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Urban Gabor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I've installed a program (gpm to more precise) and I want to > disable/enable it for the next booting. Remove/install every time I want > to experiment would be weird. Any ideas are wellcome Changing the executable flag is the best way and it disturbs

Re: Temporaly disable program

1999-05-16 Thread Michael Laing
I like to remove the execute flags from the startup script in init.d. in this case. Then when the system boots and when it shuts down, I get a console message that the daemon is not starting or stopping, reminding me that I have disabled it. For example, you could as root 'chmod a-x /etc/init.d/g

Re: Temporaly disable program

1999-05-16 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
try as root : update-rc.d gpm remove see also : man update-rc.d

RE: Temporaly disable program

1999-05-16 Thread Ted Harding
On 16-May-99 Urban Gabor wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed a program (gpm to more precise) and I want to > disable/enable it for the next booting. Remove/install every time I > want to experiment would be weird. Any ideas are wellcome Generically, the way to prevent a program from executing is to c

Temporaly disable program

1999-05-16 Thread Urban Gabor
Hi, I've installed a program (gpm to more precise) and I want to disable/enable it for the next booting. Remove/install every time I want to experiment would be weird. Any ideas are wellcome Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (36)-1-431-2949 Fax :(36)-1-