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Re: how to manage services ?



On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Didar Hussain wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:02:07AM +0500, debi@niit.edu.pk wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am new to debina. I have certain services running like lpd rpc etc. In RedHat there is a command chkconfig with which i can start/ top services for certain run levels or completely stop it from running.
> 
> I do not like unnecessary processes/daemons running, so to have
> them disabled completely irrespective of runlevel, I do:
> 
> update-rc.d -f <name> remove

A warning: a package that is disabled in this manner will not remain 
disabled if that package is updated. See man page for update-rc.d.

There are also things to watch out for like logrotate. On one machine lpd 
kept popping up every week even though I wanted it off, logrotate was 
restarting it! Better to just remove the package if you really don't want 
it enabled.

$.02

Bill Carlson
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