a central script to choose what daemons to start

[Shao Zhang <shao@linux.cia.com.au>]

Hi,
    Is there any script out there that will let me to choose what
    services to start by default?

    For instance, I would like to have apache installed on my laptop,
    but I don't want to start it everytime I boot up. Editing
    /etc/init.d/* won't help me much because then I will have to change
    it everytime I upgrade the package.

    The ppp's init script uses the file /etc/ppp/ppp-on-boot, to detect
    whether to start pppd at boot time, wouldn't it be great if we have
    a some kind of similar file, like /etc/default-daemon, which all the
    init scripts will check that file to determine whether to start or
    not?

    Thanks for any help in advance.

Regards,


Shao.

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