Hi Ross! On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, Ross Boylan wrote:
> At various times I have wanted to turn off certain daemons without > uninstalling their packages. I couldn't find any good way to do this, > so I wrote a little script. I'm making it available under the GPL. > > I've since discovered that the some packages also create a bunch of > crontab jobs, and they are still cluttering things up a bit. > > If there's a better way to do this, I'd love to hear it. > Original script deleted. What i'm doing usually is to rename the init-script under /etc/init.d/ to original-filename.NO. This will affect all runlevels but i don't care. IMO it's simple and quite obvious (for me at least). Anyone got a better idea ? Regards, Stefan