[plug] Debian and daemons

[Russ Pitman]

Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all,
> 
> Is there a recomended way to not have a daemon start on bootup?
> 
> I believe redhat has chkconfig which you can use to disable/enable 
> services on bootup.
> With Debian I have always just created a disabled subdir in the rcX.d 
> and moved the stuff I don't want to start in there.
> Is there a "proper" way of doing it?
> 
> For example, on my laptop I have apache installed for my web 
> development, but I don't want to load apache every time I start my 
> laptop. Now apache has the /etc/apache/apache_not_to_be_run to tell it 
> not to start on boot, but it's a kludge.
> uml is another example. I don't ever want to run the uml_switch daemon, 
> but it get's installed with uml_utils.
> 
> Cheers,
> Brad
Quikndirty kludge - Unset the executable bit in /etc/init.d/XXXXX
for whatever you want to stop,reset it to have it run next reboot.
-- 
Cheers
Russ.

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