dropping some bootup items

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 06:54 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> 
> Whats the best (only?) way of removing certain items from bootup. I'd
> like to drop atd, the cups stuff (I don't have a a printer) and the raid
> manager mdadm, as well as the post fix stuff including master and qmgr
> and pickup.
> 
> Can I just comment these out fo the boot scripts? Which one are they
> anyway. I've read the Debian bootup info but am still a little confused.

You could just remove the affected packages if you don't intend to ever
need them.  Or remove the symlinks in /etc/rc2.d if you wish to leave
the packages installed.