Sven Joachim --> debian-user (2009-04-01 18:07:34 +0200): > On 2009-04-01 17:23 +0200, Jukka Salmi wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > is it possible to install a daemon from a Debian package without having > > it automatically started afterwards? > > Temporarily create an executable /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d that exits with a > value of 101, e.g. the following shell script: > > #!/bin/sh > exit 101 > > This tells invoke-rc.d to disable all actions, see > /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.invoke-rc.d.gz. > > > What I want to do is to install samba, but neither smbd nor nbmd > > should be started until I had a chance to edit smb.conf(5) manually... > > Just don't forget to remove the policy-rc.d script afterwards.
Thanks, this seems to work fine. Regards, Jukka -- bashian roulette: $ ((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
