Re: preferred way to disable init.d script

[Olaf Conradi <oohlaf@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:10:58 +0100, Andreas Janssen
<andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Gebhardt Thomas (<gebhardt@hrz.uni-marburg.de>) wrote:
> 
> > sometimes it is necessary to have a software package installed
> > but you do not want to run the included system service/daemon.
> > Some packages provide a switch in /etc/defaults to manage this.
> > Other packages don't. What is the preferred way to handle these
> > packages?
> >
> > I tried several strategies, but always found some drawbacks:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 3. update-rc.d -f <service> remove
> > -> service gets silently reinstalled on upgrades
> 
> Only if you remove all of them. If you only remove the start link for
> the default runlevel, your configuration won't be changed when the
> package is upgraded.

I usually use sysv-rc-conf for this,
it remembers the priority numbers of a runlevel.
Makes it easy to enable it again later on.

Cheers,
 -Olaf