Re: startup programs

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Mr Mike wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:16:25 -0600, wrote:
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>>hey, can anyone tell me what i would have to do to remove programs from the 
>>system bootup? there are 2 servers that i want to remove from the system 
>>bootup but keep on my computer and have full control over their startup and 
>>shutdown, i would like to add them to the menu with 2 links for each, one to 
>>start it and one to stop it. can anyone help?
>>hey, can anyone tell me what i would have to do to remove programs from
>>the system bootup? there are 2 servers that i want to remove from the
>>system bootup but keep on my computer and have full control over their
>>startup and shutdown, i would like to add them to the menu with 2 links
>>for each, one to start it and one to stop it. can anyone help?<br>
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>update-rc.d -f <exact name of server script in /etc/init.d> remove
>example:  update-rc.d -f smb remove
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>this removes the runlevel scripts ie:  /etc/rc5.d/S20smb etc...
>you can use the -n to 'not' actually do anything, just show you what it
>will do if you don't use it...  (does that make sense?? :-))
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And then you can create your menu links to run the appropriate script in
"/etc/init.d" with the "start" or "stop" parameter. Continuing the
example above, one link would run "/etc/init.d/smb start" and the other
would run "/etc/init.d/smb stop".

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Kent