Hello Uwe, * Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2006-05-15 17:09 +0200]: > What is "the Debian way" to prevent any daemon from ever starting, > whether upon reboot, upon upgrade, upon new install etc. > > I know I can do > > * /etc/init.d/foobar stop > to stop the daemon at this very moment (but it'll be re-started upon > reboot, often (always?) also upon upgrade of the foobar package). > > * /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f foobar remove > to prevent the starting of the daemon upon reboot. However, most > often this will have to be done _again_ if the foobar package is > upgraded...
The correct way to disable a service is renaming the symlink to Kxyservice. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-system.en.html#s-custombootscripts You should really not use update-rc.d. Quoting update-rc.d(8): "Please note that this program was designed for use in package maintainer scripts and, accordingly, has only the very limited functionality required by such scripts. System administrators are not encouraged to use update-rc.d to manage runlevels. They should edit the links directly or use runlevel editors such as sysv-rc-conf and bum instead." I don't have an answer for the "don't start upon new install" problem, though. ciao, ema
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