Re: The right way to not start daemons

[Tomas Pospisek <tpo2@spin.ch>]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:18:31PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >
> > > 'start most things minus a few':
> > >
> > > rm /etc/rc?.d/S??{package1,package2}
> > >
> > > 'start only what I say here':
> > >
> > > find /etc/rc?.d -name 'S*' ! -name 'S??package1' | xargs rm
> >
> > I fancy that line takes a not a guru-sysadmin about 2 hours of reading
> > manpages to figure out. That can't be "it".
>
> A not guru-sysadmin could just remove the links by hand, or perhaps use a
> friendly, graphical file manager to do so (smirk).

Yes, but that's not quick and easy.

> How much quicker can you get than:
>
> vi /etc/runlevel.conf
> /foo
> i#^[:wq
> (optionally) /etc/init.d/foo stop
>
> I think you mean "easily" (for newbies), not "quickly".  For that, try
> something like tksysvinit or linuxconf.  The latter is packaged; I think the
> former used to be.

and:

> apt-get install file-rc

Yup that's it. Just installed it. Thanks for the pointer. I'm happy.


> If this is a complaint about the lack of certain features in Debian, I
> sincerely encourage you to begin implementing them.

:-) I would if I could get a clone of myself start working on them :-))

> I, for one, don't understand what it is that you want that we don't
> already have.

You are right, file-rc does it just fine! Thanks!
*t

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