Re: How to prevent daemons from ever being started?
On Monday 15 May 2006 11:09, 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.
> ...
> How would you go about ensuring that _no daemon at all_ is ever started
> on your system, except when you explicitly type "etc/init.d/foobar start"?
Setting the default run level to 'single user' should nearly do the trick.
Change /etc/inittab, thusly:
# The default runlevel.
id:S:initdefault:
It might not be the Debian way, but it's the unix way. :) :)
Neal
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