Re: Turning off printer and other daemons

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Jeffrey Taylor wrote:
> Is there a general way to disable start up of specific daemons at boot
> time.  I know I can rip the whole package out, or do a "update-rc.d -f
> remove lpd", but is there a more elegant way?  Some have files in
> /etc/default with XYZRUN=no.  Does this work in general?
>
> TIA,
>   Jeffrey

To answer your questions:
1) This is the elegant way.
2) I don't think so.

Another method to try, though I don't think this is very debian-ish, is to 
remove the 'x' attribute.  Slackware does it like this, but I don't think any 
of the System V type (Debian, RedHat, Mandrake) do it this way.

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