Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:09:14 -0600, Preston Boyington wrote:

> Camaleón wrote:
 
>> I agree this is the most common place to set the desired variable
>> values for the daemon and even the easiest way to turn on/off a service
>> at boot time but the thing is that there is not such file for Network
>> Manager under "/etc/default/*".
>> 
>> 
> (apologies if this is not what you are asking.  late to the thread)
> 
> if you have a GUI environment then couldn't you use Boot-Up Manager?
> 
> "aptitude install bum"
> 
> see:
> http://www.marzocca.net/linux/bumdocs.html

Well, I was trying to disable -not managing nor manipulating, just turn 
off- a service using the only (?) tool I've got installed ("update-rc.d" 
is installed by default, but neither "sysv-rc-conf" nor "bum" are).

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón