On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi,
>
> From: Frank Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Some more port closing questions
> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:33:37 +0000 (UTC)
>
> > On 30 Jul 02 23:24:50 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Ah, that would be nice too.  I know that the first thing I usually do
> > > when I boot my laptop is to stop a bunch of daemons that started
> > > up at boot (-;
> >
> > # update-rc.d -f somedaemon remove
>
> From update-rc.d(8), I take it this:
>
>   removes any links in the /etc/rcrunlevel.d directories to the
>   script /etc/init.d/name.  The script must have been deleted
>   already - update-rc.d checks for this.
>
> I don't think that's what I want -- I want the software installed,
> just not started by default.
[snip]

The "-f" takes care of that. It makes the update-rc.d ignore the check
for an init-script in /etc/init.d

regards,
Thomas
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