Re: Daemon mgmt was Re: turning off /sbin/portmap
Ahh, update-rc.d was what I was thinking of when I typed
update-alternatives. What the sequence number do?
--- Rich Puhek <rpuhek@etnsystems.com> wrote:
> Also look at the update-rc.d command (see man update-rc.d for
> details).
> That will allow you to do things like:
>
> update-rc.d postres start 3 (start postres in runlevel 3)
> update-rc.d postres stop 50 6 (stop postres at sequence 50 in
> runlevel
> 6)
>
> --Rich
>
>
> Alan Chen wrote:
> >
> > Just as an excercise to my own sys admin knowledge, I'll summarize
> my
> > general knowledge and just ask if anyone has suggestions or
> differences
> > in my understanding.
> >
> > Daemons (or services) can be manually manipulated in debian using
> > /etc/init.d/<daemon> with the command start, stop, restart, etc..
> >
> > This will only change what is currently running. If you reboot,
> > whatever was configured for your runlevel will be started again.
> > rcS.d/ is stuff started for every runlevel
> > rcn.d/ lists runlevel specific daemons that are started at boot
> >
> > update-alternatives (or was it alternatives-update) is a admin tool
> for
> > adding, removing daemons from various runlevels.
> >
> > To remove a daemon from starting at a given runlevel, i generally
> just
> > delete the entry in the /etc/rcn.d directory. Are there any
> reasons
> > for not doing that? I wish the update-alternatives would accept
> syntax
> > like "update-alternatives +3 postres" to add postgres to runlevel
> 3.
> > Maybe it does, it's been a while since I last used it.
> >
> > Any other general notes?
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