Re: what is portmap?
will trillich <will@serensoft.com> wrote:
>On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:32:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
>> If you're not using NFS or NIS then you can safely remove it. Those are
>> the 2 main services that need it.
>>
>> Don't use update-rc.d remove, though. If you ever upgrade your system
>> it will restore all the symlinks to the default configuration. Instead
>> just remove the 'S' symlinks (the ones that start portmap) by hand.
>> Leave the 'K' symlinks. If you leave some symlinks in place then
>> your configuration won't be overwritten when you upgrade.
>
>well! this brings up an interesting point --
>
>is there a DEBIAN-happy way to permanently remove an
>/etc/init.d/* service? this wholesale 'rm' stuff sounds hacky
>for such a streamlined apt-friendly distribution. what's the
>debian way of purging-inits-for-posterity?
As far as I remember, if you remove a conffile (e.g. /etc/init.d/*),
dpkg won't restore it on an upgrade; you need to purge and reinstall the
package to get it to do that.
(In other words, a file being missing is sometimes a valid configuration
state for that file.)
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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