On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:57:54AM -0800, Alan Chen wrote: ... > update-alternatives (or was it alternatives-update) is a admin tool for > adding, removing daemons from various runlevels.
No, it is for managing Debian's alternatives sytem. Like whether vim, or vi or tiny-vi should be named vi. Or whether gawk, or mawk is ment when you type awk. Links in /etc/init.d etc are best handled with update-rc.d > 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. update-rc.d postres start 20 3 . [[ not tested! does something like add link /etc/rc3.d/S20postres And mind you, update-rc.d wants to update all links at once, so you'll have to do a "update-rc.d -f postres remove" first and then specify all links for all levels (bummer he) ]] -- groetjes, carel
