Hi, From: Mathias Palm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Some more port closing questions Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:23:55 +0200
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 08:24:50AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > From: Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Some more port closing questions > > Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 16:21:18 -0700 > > > > > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > > > Kind of off-topic here, but I've been wondering for a while [1] whether > > > > the portmap package would be made to not install by default. > > > > > > I'd been wondering the same thing. Beyond that, I've been hoping that, > > > at some point in the future, Debian won't cause network daemons to > > > autostart in the default runlevel just because they've been installed. > > > E.g., maybe the dpkg --configure step could prompt for that decision. > > > > Ah, that would be nice too. I know that the first thing I usually do > > when I boot my laptop is to stop a bunch of daemons that started > > up at boot (-; > > > Apart from the starting by default issue: Why not just remove the appropriate > symlinks S* > in the directory /etc/rc2.d/ (or whatever runlevel you get into by default). > > Keep the scripts in /etc/init.d so you can start them by hand later. I used to do this but after a while I got tired of doing it manually and having to think about the implementation details of runlevels (i.e. the S* and K* stuff). It's really an interface issue (apart from the default issue). On a related note, I just ran dselect and noticed rcconf -- may be that's what I want (-; I'll have to check that out.
