Re: Turning off printer and other daemons
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:10:11PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> Jeffrey Taylor <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org> writes:
> > 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?
>
> What do you actually want? The /etc/rc?.d links are the main way to
> configure what services get started when; update-rc.d is a tool that
> manages those, or you can edit them by hand. In most cases, clients
> and servers come in separate packages, so you can install telnet
> without installing telnetd.
>
> > Some have files in /etc/default with XYZRUN=no. Does this work in
> > general?
>
> This only tends to happen for packages that break the previous model;
> notable exceptions are ssh (don't know why)
We haven't got around to fixing it yet, pretty much. Nor have I got
around to adding /etc/default/ssh as opposed to the
/etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run thingy yet; it's on the list along with a
couple of hundred other bugs, although somewhat higher up than many of
them ...
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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