Debian: the right way to disable startup services?

Debian: the right way to disable startup services?

Post by Georg Schwa » Tue, 29 Apr 2003 00:07:12



With Debian services are started "SysV-style" using symbolic links to
scripts in /etc/init.d.
What's the "right way" to disable some of there services, e.g. not run
inetd?
Of course one can simply remove the respective symbolic links in
/etc/rc*, but maybe there's some "cleaner" method?
With *BSD, there's rc.conf, with RedHat, there's a tool to disable and
enable startup services. Does Debian provide any such mechanism?

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Georg Schwarz    http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/

 
 
 

Debian: the right way to disable startup services?

Post by Russell Sha » Tue, 29 Apr 2003 00:13:21



> With Debian services are started "SysV-style" using symbolic links to
> scripts in /etc/init.d.
> What's the "right way" to disable some of there services, e.g. not run
> inetd?
> Of course one can simply remove the respective symbolic links in
> /etc/rc*, but maybe there's some "cleaner" method?
> With *BSD, there's rc.conf, with RedHat, there's a tool to disable and
> enable startup services. Does Debian provide any such mechanism?

update-rc.d -f inetd remove

 
 
 

Debian: the right way to disable startup services?

Post by dav.. » Tue, 29 Apr 2003 00:20:44



> Of course one can simply remove the respective symbolic links

Yeah, that's right.
Davide