Re: Standard way to disable services

[Luk Claes <luk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 02:11:26PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>> Le samedi 26 juillet 2008 à 13:18 +0200, Harald Braumann a écrit :
>>> quite often I just want to disable a service in /etc/init.d. But there
>>> doesn't seem to be a standard way to do that.
> 
>> The standard way is to remove the symlinks in /etc/rc?.d
> 
> No, the standard way is to *rename* the S symlinks to K symlinks.

One draw back is that it's not obvious what used to be an S link if you
want to reenable them, that's why I rename them to s symlinks...

Cheers

Luk


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