dropping some bootup items

[Magnus Therning]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:09:42AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>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.

You can use update-rc.d to handle those links. I guess there's a GUI app
somewhere that does it as well but I've never bothered.

A few packages can be controlled from /etc/defaults (rsync is one such
package). That might be an easier way of disabling some packages.

/M

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