Shutting off services on boot

[Matvei Kliuchnikov]

Arun Bhanu <arun <at> codemovers.org> writes:

> 
> On 14:07 Fri 05 Nov     , Romeo Theriault wrote:
> > I'm making a kiosk Linux box for our school, that won't be used for anything
> > but student e-mail. So I'd like to shut off a lot of the un-needed services
> > that start on boot. Where do I go to do this?
> 
> # update-rc.d foo remove
> 
> man update-rc.d for more info.
> 
> Cheers,
> Arun...
> 
> 

Such manual use of `update-rc.d` is inappropriate:

http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2004-October/005097.html

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M.E. Kliuchnikov