On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 01:21:45PM +0200, Harald Braumann wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:27:27 +0200 > Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Steve Langasek wrote: > > > 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. > > > > One draw back is that it's not obvious what used to be an S link if > > you want to reenable them, that's why I rename them to s symlinks... > > That's what sysv-rc-conf takes care of. It saves information about the > original symlinks, so you can restore them later.
sysv-rc-conf is just simple convienience tool. It is nowhere near standard tool. (I used to be sponsor and uploader of this package.) Standard tool to control service in /etc/init.d is the editor. Luk's solution is very smart work around. As good is note in root's home directory :) Then we can stay with popular method of using K symlinks or even use missing symlinks which should be legal but not so popular configuration. Cheer's, Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
