Re: Some more port closing questions
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
regards,
Thomas
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