Re: How to prevent daemons from ever being started?
On Monday 15 May 2006 13:31, Lee Braiden wrote:
> 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 :)
using a /etc/default/daemon
DAEMON=disable
and a small check in the init.d script is what lots of packages actually do.
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