On Thursday 10 October 2002 13:43, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:57:07PM -0400, Alexei Kaminski wrote: > > so installing KDE leads to installation of portmap. I wonder what > > is the proper way to disable portmap while still keeping KDE. I > > edited /etc/init.d/portmap so that it never starts. Is it a proper > > way? Does it cripple KDE anyhow? Are there better ways? > > I know nothing about the KDE aspects of this question, but disabling > a daemon is easy: > > $ apt-get install rcconf > $ rcconf
KDE (2.x) has the SysV-Init Editor for this purpose. Michael -- Michael Schuerig � � � � � � � � �If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] � � � � �try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/� �--Jerome Morrow, "Gattaca"

