On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 11:04:52AM -0400, Dan wrote: > Hi, > I would like to know which is the standard way to disable services. I > thought that the standard way is just to delete the link of the > service from rc*.d > > For example to disable bluetooth I would just delete the link > /etc/rc3.d/S20bluetooth that points to ../init.d/bluetooth
Some may disagree (and I've made this point before) a standard way to prevent a script from executing in Unixlike system is to set the permissions. chmod a-x /etc/init.d/bluetooth > But then I used service manager from gnome to disable bluetooth. It > disabled the service but it didn't delete the link. So I guess that > there is a standard procedure to disable the service without deleting > the link. Which is that procedure? > > Thanks, > Dan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110409210533.GA24051@sprite
