Re: How to prevent daemons from ever being started?
On Monday 15 May 2006 16:09, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just a random question I wanted to ask for quite a while now:
>
> What is "the Debian way" to prevent any daemon from ever starting,
> whether upon reboot, upon upgrade, upon new install etc.
>
> I know I can do
>
> * /etc/init.d/foobar stop
> * /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f foobar remove
Not the debian way, but since there doesn't seem to be one (I thought
update-rc.d or rcconf did it fine, until now :), you can also put:
echo "This daemon has been disabled"
exit 0
near the top of the init.d scripts :)
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