Ted Cabeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/07/2003 (08:14) : > Individual admins are not supposed to use update-rc.d to disable a > packaged program from starting.
I got told earlier that I should use the update tools when doing changes. > update-rc.d is supposed to be for the use of the installer programs, > not admins. If you want to prevent a program from starting at > boot-time, remove all of the links from the rc.? directories except > one kill link. That way the update-rc.d script will know that the > program has already been installed and will not change anything. When > you remove all of the links, it has no way of knowing that the program > was already installed and the admin removed the links, so it restores > them all. Which means that this system is really braindead, but ok I'll go with the hopeless quirkiness of it and put in a kill link. At least update-rc.d should have an argument no-start or disable etc.. so that it does this itself. -- Ada95 is good for you. http://www.crystalcode.com/codemage/MainMenu/Coding/Ada/IntroducingAda.php
