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Re: Disabling diald



On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 04:12:00PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote:
> 
> Until some days ago I was using a 56 Kb modem to connect my single box 
> to the Net. Now I have an old box as a proxy connected 7x24, and my box 
> behind it.
> I would like to prevent diald from starting at every boot, but without 
> deinstalling it, since I still can access through the modem in case the 
> permanent connection fails, so I want it at hand and properly 
> configured.
> I think adding 'kill diald' in my .profile is sort of brute, but (as 
> you've probably noticed) I'm not as skilled with Linux as I would like 
> yet.
> Is there any way of configuring this behavior in a more adecuate and 
> elegant fashion ?

I don't use diald, so I can't tell you offhand exactly what the files are
called, but...

Look in /etc/rc2.d/ for a file called (something like) S50diald (though the
number may be different. It should be a link to /etc/init.d/diald (or
similar).

You can rename the link to K50diald (but keep the numeric value the same).
Next time you boot, diald won't start. You can manually start it by doing
'/etc/init.d/diald start'

-B

-- 
Brandon High                                     armitage@freaks.com
"Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes."

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