Re: SecurityPortal Review of Potato
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Peter Cordes wrote:
> I wish it was easier to have a daemon installed, but have it not started by
> default. e.g. I want to have NFS stuff installed, in case I want to cook up
> some hack (not crack) and use it for something, but I don't want to have it
> running all the time. I can remove the symlinks from /etc/rc2.d, but when
> the package is upgraded, the upgrade script runs the start script after
> the upgrade, even if the daemons weren't running before.
It would be nice, I agree.
I have taken to inserting "exit 0" at the top of the init.d/foo script.
Since they are marked as conffiles (always I hope?), I get the chance to
keep my modified conffile and it won't restart after upgrade.
Is there a better way?
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