Re: shut down exim4

[Alan Ianson <alianson@shaw.ca>]

On Tue August 30 2005 01:10 pm, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 15:28 -0400, Ben Bettin wrote:
> > > > 2) How can I stop exim from loading on boot?
> > >
> > > $ find /etc/rc?.d -name '*exim4*' | xargs rm -f
> >
> > This mess is why I prefer sysv-rc-conf :)
>
> So, why not use the tools that Debian gives you?
>
> knight:/etc/logcheck# update-rc.d
> usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove
>        update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | sNN kNN]
>        update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] .
>                 -n: not really
>                 -f: force
>
> So, as root:
>
> 	update-rc.d -f exim4 remove
>
> because it'll complain otherwise.
>
>
> Or better yet, edit /etc/default/exim4 changing
> 	QUEUERUNNER='combined'
> to
> 	QUEUERUNNER='nodaemon'
>
> Hope that lessens you misunderstanding of Debian. There are far bigger
> fish to deal with than sysv-rc-conf vs sysvinit styles.

That does take a nice chunk out of it, thanks. Thanks to everyone who replied. 
That'll keep me occupied for a while.. :)