On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 04:45:12PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 09:14:39PM +0000, Pollywog wrote: > > OR, preferably, remove the startup links with > > > > update-rc.d -f wwwoffle remove > > > > The second approach at least allows you to stop or start wwwoffle manually. > > Well, the update-rc.d man page says that this will only work if > /etc/init.d/wwwoffle has also been removed.
The -f switch to update-rc.d, as supplied above, overrides this sanity check. > Anyone, wtf is this wwwoffle thing anyway? I don't have a man > page or an info page for it, and there is nothing in /usr/share/doc. The package appears to contain a number of man pages and substantial documentation in /usr/share/doc/wwwoffle. It sounds like you've removed the package. > And why can't we uninstall it without also uninstalling > task-dialup (via apt-get remove)? Does anyone have any > advice on this? The dialup task includes wwwoffle, and therefore task-dialup depends on it. Removing the task-dialup package is harmless. The confusion you're experiencing here is one of the reasons why, in woody, tasks are no longer managed with packages and dependencies in this way. > Hmm, maybe it's being triggered by ip-up. Ian, look in > your /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory for a related script. The package does seem to have ip-up and ip-down hooks. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
