Re: not starting daemons at boot: ln -s disabled

2005-08-09 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 12:15:29PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Dan Jacobson writes: > > But the downsize is later, unless one keeps records, one isn't quite sure > > of just what tampering one has done in /etc/rc?.d/ > > Sysvconfig keeps records. Sweet. Now I get a Red Hat-like service command as

Re: not starting daemons at boot: ln -s disabled

2005-08-08 Thread John Hasler
Joe Smith writes: > policy-rc.d > update-rc.d (this is the only one installed on my system) > sysvconfig > Any others? This seems excessive! Update-rc.d and sysvconfig do not do the same thing. Read the man pages. And policy-rc.d is not an rc.d manager. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: not starting daemons at boot: ln -s disabled

2005-08-08 Thread Joe Smith
Dan Jacobson wrote: One way of having some daemons not start at boot (e.g., if we only use our printer once a year) is to remove certain /etc/rc?.d/ links. Hmmm, does init respect policy-rc.d? If so, it'd be fairly easy to do it that way... How many rc.d managers are in Debian anyway? p

Re: not starting daemons at boot: ln -s disabled

2005-08-07 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Dan Jacobson wrote: > One way of having some daemons not start at boot (e.g., if we only use > our printer once a year) is to remove certain /etc/rc?.d/ links. Hmmm, does init respect policy-rc.d? If so, it'd be fairly easy to do it that way... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: not starting daemons at boot: ln -s disabled

2005-08-06 Thread John Hasler
Dan Jacobson writes: > But the downsize is later, unless one keeps records, one isn't quite sure > of just what tampering one has done in /etc/rc?.d/ Sysvconfig keeps records. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: not starting daemons at boot: ln -s disabled

2005-08-06 Thread Steve Greenland
On 05-Aug-05, 16:22 (CDT), Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One way of having some daemons not start at boot (e.g., if we only use > our printer once a year) is to remove certain /etc/rc?.d/ links. > > But the downsize is later, unless one keeps records, one isn't quite > sure of just wh

not starting daemons at boot: ln -s disabled

2005-08-05 Thread Dan Jacobson
One way of having some daemons not start at boot (e.g., if we only use our printer once a year) is to remove certain /etc/rc?.d/ links. But the downsize is later, unless one keeps records, one isn't quite sure of just what tampering one has done in /etc/rc?.d/ So in /etc/default/* we can set NO_S