Re: Disable a service
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:04:52 -0400, Dan wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> I wondered the same in this thread:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/12/msg00424.html
>
> (that was a very interesting thread were people pointed out several ways
> to achieve the same goal)
>
>> For example to disable bluetooth I would just delete the link
>> /etc/rc3.d/S20bluetooth that points to ../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?
>
> I finally disabled the service by issuing "update-rc.d service_name
> disable". Full story here:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/12/msg00505.html
>
update-rc.d disable seems to be the best way. It renames the service
so that it starts with K instead with S. But I still do not know how
the gnome service manager is able to disable the service. It does not
make any change in the links in rc*.d and it does not make any change
in /etc/default/bluetooth
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