Re: apt-get install without starting?
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 09:21:46PM -0700, David Barrett <dbarrett@quinthar.com> was heard to say:
> Mumia W.. wrote:
>> On 07/11/2008 07:26 PM, David Barrett wrote:
>>> Is there any way to "apt-get install ssh" without having it
>>> automatically start sshd? Same for "lighttpd".
>>>
>>> Basically, I'm making great progress in my bootable QEMU image script:
>>>
>>
>> I don't know of a way, but you can firewall-off the ssh port before you
>> install, and you can configure ssh to not start by running update-rc.d.
>>
>
> Ug. That's unfortunate. My primary reason for not wanting it to start
> is actually for a different reason than security: I don't know a general
> way to determine which packages start up processes that need stopping,
> nor how to stop them.
>
> Essentially, I'm writing a script to generate ready-to-deploy bootable
> qemu images, One of the inputs of the script is a list of packages to
> install. This works fantastic, with the key exception that some of
> those packages (ssh and lighttpd, specifically) start up running
> processes. These processes need to be stopped before I can dismount the
> raw image and zip it up for instant future deployment.
I've never used it myself, but I believe that invoke-rc.d was supposed
to solve this sort of problem. (I don't know much more than that, but
it looks like the manpage might have pointers)
Daniel
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