Re: Some more port closing questions

[sen_ml@eccosys.com]

Hi,

From: "Thomas J. Zeeman" <tjzeeman@cs.vu.nl>
Subject: Re: Some more port closing questions
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:55:25 +0200 (CEST)

> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 sen_ml@eccosys.com wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > From: Frank Copeland <fjc@thingy.apana.org.au>
> > Subject: Re: Some more port closing questions
> > Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:33:37 +0000 (UTC)
> >
> > > On 30 Jul 02 23:24:50 GMT, sen_ml@eccosys.com <sen_ml@eccosys.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ah, that would be nice too.  I know that the first thing I usually do
> > > > when I boot my laptop is to stop a bunch of daemons that started
> > > > up at boot (-;
> > >
> > > # update-rc.d -f somedaemon remove
> >
> > From update-rc.d(8), I take it this:
> >
> >   removes any links in the /etc/rcrunlevel.d directories to the
> >   script /etc/init.d/name.  The script must have been deleted
> >   already - update-rc.d checks for this.
> >
> > I don't think that's what I want -- I want the software installed,
> > just not started by default.
> [snip]
> 
> The "-f" takes care of that. It makes the update-rc.d ignore the check
> for an init-script in /etc/init.d

Thanks for pointing that out (-;