Re: How to prevent daemons from ever being started?

[scholler@fnb.tu-darmstadt.de (Christoph Ulrich Scholler)]

Hi,

On 15.05. 17:09, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> What is "the Debian way" to prevent any daemon from ever starting,
> whether upon reboot, upon upgrade, upon new install etc.

If your default runlevel is 2, delete the symlink to the respective init
script in /etc/rc2.d or even in /etc/rc[2345].d.  Just make sure that
there is at least one such symlink still in place in any of
/etc/rc[S0123456].d.  If you do it like this no new symlinks will be
created upon upgrade.

Regards

uLI