Mr Mike wrote: >On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:16:25 -0600, wrote: > > > >>hey, can anyone tell me what i would have to do to remove programs from the >>system bootup? there are 2 servers that i want to remove from the system >>bootup but keep on my computer and have full control over their startup and >>shutdown, i would like to add them to the menu with 2 links for each, one to >>start it and one to stop it. can anyone help? >>hey, can anyone tell me what i would have to do to remove programs from >>the system bootup? there are 2 servers that i want to remove from the >>system bootup but keep on my computer and have full control over their >>startup and shutdown, i would like to add them to the menu with 2 links >>for each, one to start it and one to stop it. can anyone help?<br> >> >> > >update-rc.d -f <exact name of server script in /etc/init.d> remove >example: update-rc.d -f smb remove > >this removes the runlevel scripts ie: /etc/rc5.d/S20smb etc... >you can use the -n to 'not' actually do anything, just show you what it >will do if you don't use it... (does that make sense?? :-)) > > And then you can create your menu links to run the appropriate script in "/etc/init.d" with the "start" or "stop" parameter. Continuing the example above, one link would run "/etc/init.d/smb start" and the other would run "/etc/init.d/smb stop".
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