On Monday 15 May 2006 13:31, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Monday 15 May 2006 16:09, Uwe Hermann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > just a random question I wanted to ask for quite a while now: > > > > What is "the Debian way" to prevent any daemon from ever starting, > > whether upon reboot, upon upgrade, upon new install etc. > > > > I know I can do > > > > * /etc/init.d/foobar stop > > * /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f foobar remove > > Not the debian way, but since there doesn't seem to be one (I thought > update-rc.d or rcconf did it fine, until now :), you can also put: > > echo "This daemon has been disabled" > exit 0 > > near the top of the init.d scripts :)
using a /etc/default/daemon DAEMON=disable and a small check in the init.d script is what lots of packages actually do. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
