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Re: How to manage services?



Hi,

Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:43:45PM +0530, Sudeep Mukherjee wrote:
> > I want to disable some services, e.g., Samba. What is the Debian way
> > to do it?
> 
> If you don't want them, why not uninstall them?
> 
> If for some reason you don't want to do that, I find it best to stop the
> service and then simply move the Snnwhatever symlink in /etc/rc2.d/ to a
> name that starts with an 's' rather than an 'S' (so, let's say, 'mv
> /etc/rc2.d/S20samba /etc/rc2.d/s20samba'). 
[...]

Why not moving it to Knnwhatever? 

I thought that this would ensure that the service was stopped on
entering the runlevel if it was started before. 

Best regards,

Jaume

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