Re: Newbie questions !

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 04:10:57PM +1000, Steve Kieu wrote:
> If I dont want to run for example crond at boot time
> how can I disable it? it is not the way to delete the
> symlink in /etc/rc.2/ or chmod -x /etc/init.d/crond I
> think. 

	update-rc.d crond remove

or to have it enabled only in runlevel 4,

	update-rc.d crond start 50 4 . stop 50 2 3 5 .

(presuming a priority/sequence of 50 is kopacetic with you.)

	man update-rc.d

for more info.

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