How to stop unwanted servrices during boot

[Wouter Eerdekens]

Markus Hubig wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Wouter Eerdekens wrote:
> 
> 
>>I feel it's time to end this discussion, so I wrote a little roundup on 
>>it. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Here it is:
>>
>>- Editing the initscripts to not start the service is the best method we
>>  have for now.
> 
> 
> Hmm ... maybe this is ok for someone who has already edited some scripts
> but a novice may have some real trubel with it (It's not easy to edit a
> scripts with OOo ;-)

gedit can handle these things and shouldn't be too difficult for novices.

> 
> 
>>- Removing the symlinks from /etc/rc?.d directories is better, but it's
>>  a bit of a hassle to re-enable the service later on.
> 
> 
> Jep.
> 
> 
>>- Disabling the service by issuing chmod -x is an ugly hack and should
>>  be avoided.
> 
> 
> Don't agree. Don't see any problem. A simple "ls /etc/init.d/" shows you
> all "disabled" services ... and reactivating (when we have a better
> solution) via "chmod +x /etc/init.d/*" is also quite easy.

ls /etc/init.d shows all initscripts (the disabled and enabled ones). 
But you should be able to distinguish the disabled ones from the others 
(either by ls -l or by using a 'colorized' ls, which is on by default)

> 
> 
>>- In the future, all initscripts should have a /etc/default/<service>
>>  file in which we can choose whether or not to start the service at
>>  boottime. If it's going to be this approach or something else is
>>  another discussion, but we certainly need something.
> 
> 
> Jep! And init.d-script-dependencies ;-)
> 
> 
>>But the wiki tells the users in the Ubuntu Bootup Howto[1] that the 
>>chmod approach is 'more straightforward' than removing the symlinks.
>>Shouldn't this page be updated with the results of this discussion?
>>I can do this, but I need to know what we should be telling the user 
>>instead.
>>
>>[1] http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/UbuntuBootupHowto
> 
> 
> Yes do this, but we shold promote only ONE methode.

I agree that we need to stick with one method.

> 
>    - Markus
> 

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