On Sb, 09 apr 11, 11:04:52, Dan wrote: > Hi, > I would like to know which is the standard way to disable services. I > thought that the standard way is just to delete the link of the > service from rc*.d > > For example to disable bluetooth I would just delete the link > /etc/rc3.d/S20bluetooth that points to ../init.d/bluetooth This might work for a single runlevel, but has unexpected results if you remove all symlinks: ,----[ man update-rc.d ] | A common system administration error is to delete the links with the | thought that this will "disable" the service, i.e., that this will pre‐ | vent the service from being started. However, if all links have been | deleted then the next time the package is upgraded, the package's | postinst script will run update-rc.d again and this will reinstall links | at their factory default locations. The correct way to disable ser‐ | vices is to configure the service as stopped in all runlevels in which | it is started by default. In the System V init system this means | renaming the service's symbolic links from S to K. `---- > But then I used service manager from gnome to disable bluetooth. It > disabled the service but it didn't delete the link. So I guess that > there is a standard procedure to disable the service without deleting > the link. Which is that procedure? Besides what is written in 'man update-rc.d' it is also necessary to run insserv, which is not very well documented: # mv /etc/rc3.d/S20bluetooth /etc/rc3.d/K00bluetooth # insserv (the actual number after the K doesn't really matter due to insserv) Reactivating: # mv /etc/rc3.d/K00bluetooth /etc/rc3.d/S20bluetooth # insserv (the number after the K might be different if insserv changed it and the number after the S doesn't matter since insserv will re-order as needed. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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