On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 02:11:26PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 26 juillet 2008 à 13:18 +0200, Harald Braumann a écrit : > > quite often I just want to disable a service in /etc/init.d. But there > > doesn't seem to be a standard way to do that.
> The standard way is to remove the symlinks in /etc/rc?.d No, the standard way is to *rename* the S symlinks to K symlinks. If you remove the symlinks, you leave the service's state in that runlevel undefined, and package upgrades will restart the service for you.) If you remove *all* the symlinks in /etc/rc?.d, upgrades will restore all of the symlinks for you. > > In http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=+462155 I was told > > to use sysv-rc-conf. I didn't know that tool before. But it seems a > > reasonable option. > There is also services-admin (in gnome-system-tools). Which, from what I've seen, doesn't know it needs to change S links to K links. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
