Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:37:19 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-08 23:41 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: You should use update-rc.d network-manager disable instead.  See update-rc.d(8). I think update-rc.d manpage should then change

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-08 01:21 +0100, Arthur Machlas wrote: Problem is, or at least, what I think the problem with that is, is that insserv is installed by default, and concurrent is now the default as well. So whenever a system service is added removed, changed or when insserv is called by some other

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:37:52 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:46:53 +0100, Jochem Kossen wrote: You didn't disable network-manager. You removed the startup scripts

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Arthur Machlas arthur.mach...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:09:14 -0600, Preston Boyington wrote: Camaleón wrote: I agree this is the most common place to set the desired variable

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:29 PM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: You could always just remove the symlink under the rc#.d directory that you want to start (S) or stop (K) the service in. It's generally advised that you use update-rc.d to do this. However, IIRC this is the exact same

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: In fact, what this thread has shown us is that there is not a standard method (let's call it a common way) for doing a simple task like is disabling a script from running and keep its current status. I was looking for a

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-09 09:15 +0100, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:37:19 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-08 23:41 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: You should use update-rc.d network-manager disable instead.  See update-rc.d(8). I

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Arthur Machlas arthur.mach...@gmail.com wrote: The move to insserv lsb headers to deal with concurrent boot issues has thrown a bit of dust into the eyes of update-rc.d. I think if the user is working on a concurrent boot system, as squeeze is, they ought to

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Javier Barroso javibarr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-07 17:21 +0100, Camaleón wrote: A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze system so it doesn't run on start up. I

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:24:51PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-07 17:21 +0100, Camaleón wrote: A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze system so it doesn't run on start up. I wanted to keep NM

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-09 09:59 +0100, Tom H wrote: Even though someone posted earlier in this thread that updates respect editing /etc/init.d files, I'm not convinced that all packages behave that way. Every package that does not is RC-buggy; I don't think there are many such bugs. It's safer to use

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:54:11 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) Mmm... man page says by using defaults the service should be put in sequence number 20 (unless there are any conflicts): t...@debian:~$ ls -l /etc/rc* | grep network-manager lrwxrwxrwx

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:54:11 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: Whenever I use update-rc.d on a sid box to stop/remove/disable, I get a using concurrency based boot sequencing message with a

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:07:11 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) The warning can be ignored but the service levels are not touched and it does not work as expected (meaning, the service is not disabled at all). It was silly of me to say that the

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-09 09:15 +0100, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:37:19 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-08 23:41 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: You should use update-rc.d network-manager disable instead. See

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 08:15:08AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:37:19 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-08 23:41 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: You should use update-rc.d network-manager disable instead.  See

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:33:20 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 08:15:08AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:37:19 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-08 23:41 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: You should

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Joel Roth
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 04:50:52AM -0500, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:24:51PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-07 17:21 +0100, Camaleón wrote: A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-09 18:55 +0100, Camaleón wrote: I basically see two issues here: 1/ We lack? for a recommended way/Debian way for disabling scripts (this thread is plenty of alternatives and tips for doing it but documentation is not very clear on the matter). I think it is important for an

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Joachim wrote: Tom H wrote: It's safer to use insserv's override mechanism. It's also more convenient. If you edit the script itself, dpkg will pester you with its conffile prompt every time the maintainer changes something in the script. In my case that pestering is a feature.

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-09 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-09 18:55 +0100, Camaleón wrote: I basically see two issues here: 1/ We lack? for a recommended way/Debian way for disabling scripts (this thread is plenty of alternatives and tips for doing it but documentation

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:51:11 -0600, Arthur Machlas wrote: I'd definitely hold off on the bug report. I think you should look at the lsb headers of the network-manager script in /etc/init.d and change them to stop on all

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:46:53 +0100, Jochem Kossen wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:46:53 +0100, Jochem Kossen wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 04:21:38PM +, Camale?n wrote: Hello, A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze system so it doesn't run on start up. I wanted to

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:46:53 +0100, Jochem Kossen wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:46:53 +0100, Jochem Kossen wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 04:21:38PM +, Camale?n wrote: A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:09:14 -0600, Preston Boyington wrote: Camaleón wrote: I agree this is the most common place to set the desired variable values for the daemon and even the easiest way to turn on/off a service at boot time but the thing is that there is not such file for Network

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:37:52 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:46:53 +0100, Jochem Kossen wrote: (...) You didn't disable network-manager. You removed the startup scripts which were correctly put back by the update. Of course I

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:46:50 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Arthur Machlas wrote: Camaleón wrote: Are you suggesting to manually edit the /etc/init.d/network-manager script header to fit my needs? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I expect this file (as any file located here) can be updated at any

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Joel Roth
No one else has mentioned it: chmod a-x /etc/init.d/script-name Works for me :-) Cheers -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

(Solved) Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:05:20 -0700, green wrote: Camaleón wrote at 2010-12-07 09:21 -0700: So I issued update-rc.d network-manager remove and also disabled gnome NM applet from being started. So far so good, no more NM running at booting. You probably want to use disable instead of remove.

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:09:14 -0600, Preston Boyington wrote: Camaleón wrote: I agree this is the most common place to set the desired variable values for the daemon and even the easiest way to turn on/off a service at boot

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-07 17:21 +0100, Camaleón wrote: A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze system so it doesn't run on start up. I wanted to keep NM installed (just in case) but preferred to use the old ifup network setup method. So I issued update-rc.d network-manager

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread shawn wilson
You could always just remove the symlink under the rc#.d directory that you want to start (S) or stop (K) the service in. It's generally advised that you use update-rc.d to do this. However, IIRC this is the exact same thing that the command does (nothing more) so you should be fine.

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Bob Proulx
shawn wilson wrote: It's generally advised that you use update-rc.d to do this. However, IIRC this is the exact same thing that the command does (nothing more) so you should be fine. I see a lot of advice to use update-rc.d to manipulate the symlinks. That is fine. But it isn't required. It

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:35:25 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: shawn wilson wrote: It's generally advised that you use update-rc.d to do this. However, IIRC this is the exact same thing that the command does (nothing more) so you should be fine. I see a lot of advice to use update-rc.d to

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread shawn wilson
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:35:25 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: shawn wilson wrote: It's generally advised that you use update-rc.d to do this. However, IIRC this is the exact same thing that the command does (nothing more) so you

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Arthur Machlas
First, apologies to Shawn. I didn't pay attention when responding. Time to have dinner I think. On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:56 PM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:35:25 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-12-07 17:21 +0100, Camaleón wrote: A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze system so it doesn't run on start up. I wanted to keep NM installed (just in case) but preferred to use the old ifup

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: In fact, what this thread has shown us is that there is not a standard method (let's call it a common way) for doing a simple task like is disabling a script from running and keep its current status. I was looking for a Debian way for handling this, not just with Network

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-08 23:41 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: You should use update-rc.d network-manager disable instead.  See update-rc.d(8). I think update-rc.d manpage should then change example which Camaleon referenced in her

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Joel Roth
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:24:51PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-12-07 17:21 +0100, Camaleón wrote: A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze system so it doesn't run on start up. I wanted to keep NM installed (just in case) but preferred to use the old ifup

Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-07 Thread Camaleón
Hello, A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze system so it doesn't run on start up. I wanted to keep NM installed (just in case) but preferred to use the old ifup network setup method. So I issued update-rc.d network-manager remove and also disabled gnome NM applet from

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-07 Thread Mike
update-rc.d network-manager remove I don't have this service, but generally I'd expect to disable a service through its /etc/default/ settings. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-07 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Hi A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze system so it doesn't run on start up. I wanted to keep NM installed (just in case) but preferred to use the old ifup network setup method. So I issued

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:49:03 -0800, Mike wrote: update-rc.d network-manager remove I don't have this service, but generally I'd expect to disable a service through its /etc/default/ settings. I agree this is the most common place to set the desired variable values for the daemon and even

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:51:11 -0600, Arthur Machlas wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) Before I fill a bug report (I think a service that has been manually disabled should keep its state regardless any further update it can be applied afterwards), I would like to

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-07 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:51:11 -0600, Arthur Machlas wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) Before I fill a bug report (I think a service that has been manually disabled should keep its state regardless

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-07 Thread green
Camaleón wrote at 2010-12-07 09:21 -0700: So I issued update-rc.d network-manager remove and also disabled gnome NM applet from being started. So far so good, no more NM running at booting. You probably want to use disable instead of remove. See update-rc.d(8). signature.asc Description:

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Arthur Machlas wrote: Camaleón wrote: Are you suggesting to manually edit the /etc/init.d/network-manager script header to fit my needs? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I expect this file (as any file located here) can be updated at any time and so replacing any of the customized values I

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-07 Thread Preston Boyington
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:49:03 -0800, Mike wrote: update-rc.d network-manager remove I don't have this service, but generally I'd expect to disable a service through its /etc/default/ settings. I agree this is the most common place to set the desired variable values for the

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-07 Thread Jochem Kossen
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 04:21:38PM +, Camale?n wrote: Hello, A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze system so it doesn't run on start up. I wanted to keep NM installed (just in case) but preferred to use the old ifup network setup method. So I issued

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-07 Thread Paul Lane
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze system so it doesn't run on start up. I wanted to keep NM installed (just in case) but preferred to use the old ifup network setup method. So I issued

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-07 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Paul Lane kc9...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze system so it doesn't run on start up. I wanted to keep NM installed (just in case) but