Hi All,
I responded to this question and said to use 'update-alternatives' myself. I meant update-rc.d. Doh! Jimmy Richards On Thursday 29 March 2001 14:25, Daniel Freedman wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001, 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. > > Don't you mean update-rc.d? > > According to the man page: > update-alternatives creates, removes, maintains and dis- > plays information about the symbolic links comprising the > Debian alternatives system. > > Thus, update-alternatives was meant for specifying which option is > associated with the generic name. In other words editor can link to > emacs, vi, vim, nano, etc.; x-window-manager can link to fvwm, > blackbox, etc. > > > 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. > > I think what you want is update-rc.d: > > update-rc.d foobar start 20 2 3 4 5 . stop 20 0 1 6 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/sbin/update-rc.d --help > usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove > update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> defaults [NN | sNN kNN] > update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl runlvl . ... > -n: not really > -f: force > > > Hope this helps, > > Take care, > > Daniel
