Re: disabling portmap with KDE

[Michael Schuerig <schuerig@acm.org>]

On Thursday 10 October 2002 13:43, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:57:07PM -0400, Alexei Kaminski wrote:
> > so installing KDE leads to installation of portmap. I wonder what
> > is the proper way to disable portmap while still keeping KDE. I
> > edited /etc/init.d/portmap so that it never starts. Is it a proper
> > way? Does it cripple KDE anyhow? Are there better ways?
>
> I know nothing about the KDE aspects of this question, but disabling
> a daemon is easy:
>
> $ apt-get install rcconf
> $ rcconf

KDE (2.x) has the SysV-Init Editor for this purpose.

Michael

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