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 to stop the daemon at this very moment (but it'll be re-started upon reboot, often (always?) also upon upgrade of the foobar package). * /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f foobar remove to prevent the starting of the daemon upon reboot. However, most often this will have to be done _again_ if the foobar package is upgraded... I have been using a small /etc/rc.boot/remove_daemons script for quite a while now to kill off daemons upon every reboot on my laptop. Basically it looks like: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f lpd remove > /dev/null /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f fetchmail remove > /dev/null /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f dictd remove > /dev/null /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f xprint remove > /dev/null /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f ssh remove > /dev/null [....] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It "kills" all daemons I don't want to run per default (but I still want to be installed, e.g. for manual starting in certain situations). Now, I _could_ run my /etc/rc.boot/remove_daemons script in a cronjob every minute or so, but there sure has to be a more elegant way... Besides, I need to manually maintain the contents of the script, adding whatever packages I newly install. That's tedious and error-prone. 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"? Uwe. -- Uwe Hermann http://www.hermann-uwe.de http://www.it-services-uh.de | http://www.crazy-hacks.org http://www.holsham-traders.de | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
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