[GLLUG] Debian, Daemon installed, but not running

[Brian Hoort]

At the last SlashDot Meetup, I asked if there was a way to stop a daemon 
from running without un-installing it. I was just reading through the 
Debian Weekly News and found this:

Enabling Daemons. Noah Meyerhans noted that Debian currently doesn't 
support situations when a daemon package is installed and the daemon isn't 
started upon startup. Noah wondered why Debian doesn't support the BSDish 
/etc/rc.conf system which contains a variable for each daemon.
(yanked from: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2002/38/ )

Shucks.


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   Brian Hoort

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