Also look at the update-rc.d command (see man update-rc.d for details).
That will allow you to do things like:
update-rc.d postres start 3 (start postres in runlevel 3)
update-rc.d postres stop 50 6 (stop postres at sequence 50 in runlevel
6)
--Rich
Alan Chen wrote:
>
> Just as an excercise to my own sys admin knowledge, I'll summarize my
> general knowledge and just ask if anyone has suggestions or differences
> in my understanding.
>
> Daemons (or services) can be manually manipulated in debian using
> /etc/init.d/<daemon> with the command start, stop, restart, etc..
>
> This will only change what is currently running. If you reboot,
> whatever was configured for your runlevel will be started again.
> rcS.d/ is stuff started for every runlevel
> rcn.d/ lists runlevel specific daemons that are started at boot
>
> update-alternatives (or was it alternatives-update) is a admin tool for
> adding, removing daemons from various runlevels.
>
> To remove a daemon from starting at a given runlevel, i generally just
> delete the entry in the /etc/rcn.d directory. Are there any reasons
> for not doing that? I wish the update-alternatives would accept syntax
> like "update-alternatives +3 postres" to add postgres to runlevel 3.
> Maybe it does, it's been a while since I last used it.
>
> Any other general notes?
>
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Rich Puhek
ETN Systems Inc.
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