Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

[john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>]

On 5/4/2021 7:28 PM, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 04/05/2021 à 19:26, Joe a écrit :
> > On Tue, 4 May 2021 10:03:43 -0700
> > conover@rahul.net (John Conover) wrote:
> >
> > > Greg Wooledge writes:
> > > > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:17:38AM -0700, John Conover wrote:
> > > > > Searching for exim in
> > > > > /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/* and
> > > > > /lib/systemd/system/* yields nothing.
> > > > >
> > > > > How do I stop exim from launching across boots?
> > > > Presumably there is a systemd service, which is enabled.  You will
> > > > want to disable it.
> > > That was the question, Greg:
> > >
> > >      "Searching for exim in
> > >      /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/* and
> > >      /lib/systemd/system/* yields nothing."
> > >
> > > so, it wasn't there. Which service?, (or how to find out?) Or, maybe,
> > > it is under /etc/init.d/exim4, which failed to work, so, I was looking
> > > into the systemd control files.
> > Try exim4.service
> apt-file tells me trhere is a exim4-base.service (from package exim4-base)

You could look in the log for the service name then do 'systemctl
disable <SERVICE-NAME>'.

I just want to mention 'inserv' but you should use systemd.

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John Doe