Re: install daemon without starting it

[Jukka Salmi <j+debian@2009.salmi.ch>]

Sven Joachim --> debian-user (2009-04-01 18:07:34 +0200):
> On 2009-04-01 17:23 +0200, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > is it possible to install a daemon from a Debian package without having
> > it automatically started afterwards?
> 
> Temporarily create an executable /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d that exits with a
> value of 101, e.g. the following shell script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> exit 101
> 
> This tells invoke-rc.d to disable all actions, see
> /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.invoke-rc.d.gz.
> 
> > What I want to do is to install samba, but neither smbd nor nbmd
> > should be started until I had a chance to edit smb.conf(5) manually...
> 
> Just don't forget to remove the policy-rc.d script afterwards.

Thanks, this seems to work fine.


Regards, Jukka

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