Re: Services

[mike <mikpolniak@adelphia.net>]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:59:51 +0200, Jonathan Gift said:

> Hi,
>  
>  Back. Ok. The advice was for switching off a service such as inetd. I did
>  the stop and had a look at the conf files, etc. But what finally stopped it
>  was just removing the link to the /etc/init.d/inetd file in all 6 of the rc
>  directories. This wasn't particularly clean in my eyes. Or is it,
>  considering only what is required is in there?
>  
>  When you turn off a service in linuxconf, wht does it do? I don't think it
>  places a 0 in the exit for the service. Does it remove the link, is there
>  another command I didn't catch. This is to turn the service off for good.
>  
>  Thanks for all the help. The group stuff was great.
>  
>  Jonathan
>  
>  PS Like an idiot I deleted the files without making a copy. I would want to
>  know the ame in case I have to make the ling again. I think it was
>  @20inetd... Is that the case?

	To remove your init script links,  the command to use is:
update-rc.d -f inetd remove. Then to restore the links its
update-rc.d  inetd  start 20 1 2 3 4 5 . stop 20 0 6 .

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